"Having brought Maduro to America, the Trump administration is also bringing his politics. Yet the shadow over Minneapolis is not just Maduro’s, but that of all modern tyrannies. The cycle is known. The lie that justifies the violence, the violence as the excuse for repeating the lie. The truth alone will not set is free, but truth is the first step.”https://snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-minneapolis

When I lived in Vietnam, I met hundreds of Vets who felt driven to come back to the site of their trauma. They were all painfully disoriented to find the battle ground that had haunted them for 20 years was a vibrant, peaceful, and increasingly prosperous country that looked and felt nothing like the place that their minds had been stuck in since they left. They weren’t happy to find a better place. They were bewildered. And often the response was fairly catastrophic.

First - the reasons given.Drugs: If the Trump regime cared about drug trafficking, they would not have pardoned the Honduran ex-president convicted of it.The attacks on Venezuelan ‘drug boats’ were spectacle and priming. For months, the media helped prime the public for what happened yesterday.But how does kidnapping Maduro and his wife stop cocaine being trafficked to the US? It doesn’t. But Trump supporters cannot think in abstracts. They’ve been fed an image of Maduro as Tony Montana.