There could be a universe adjacent to this one where it might be appropriate, on this deep, dark day in American history, to make obligatory clucking noises about Nicolás Maduro, the now-forcibly-deposed president of Venezuela. But you know what? Forget it. You won’t get that here.
Maduro was bad news, I suppose, but almost certainly wouldn’t have ranked among the world’s top five most disagreeable despots. Far more to the point, Maduro and his actual or alleged misdeeds are almost entirely irrelevant right now. Any effort to “well, actually” the shameful, shocking and blatantly illegal actions of the U.S. government this weekend should choke on the big lump of obvious hypocrisy caught in its throat.
