Among the many saving graces of Donald Trump’s apparent incompetence is that the CIA during his administration can’t seem to pull off an effective coup. They failed in Venezuela - repeatedly and at times with comic effect - and now they’ve failed in Bolivia as well. That’s because after popular socialist president Evo Morales was ousted last year, Bolivians scheduled and finally held a presidential election, and the big winner was Luis Arce, Morales’ former economic minister and the standard bearer for Morales’ political party, the Movement for Socialism, or MAS.

As Cenk and Ana discuss in this clip, Arce won handily, beating his nearest competitor by more than 20 points. In response right-wing interim president and coup beneficiary Jeanine Áñez tweeted her hopes that Arce will govern with democracy in mind. Democracy! Well, at least she still has a sense of humor.

The two hosts point out that contrary to what the US media would have us believe, leftist policies are actually very popular in Latin America, and the right wing can typically only win through authoritarian means, which goes a long way toward explaining these results from Bolivia. One key reason for socialism’s popularity, they suggest, is that leftists typically want to use the countries’ national resources for the benefit of the citizenry, and not just to line the pockets of elites and fill multinational corporations’ coffers.

Watch the full clip for their further thoughts on this pivotal election, and for Cenk’s explanation of Sarah Palin’s socialist policies driving her popularity as governor in Alaska.