Wow, Jesse. Very unfair. I’ve said over and over again that our sanctions there were terrible. I’m not naïve about American foreign-policy in Latin America. But we should not romanticize Maduro. He’s not Allende. Trump isn’t standing up for democracy here.

I certainly have never supported the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jesse. Of course they’re dictators. Look at my post again. I said he “has a thing for dictators,” which clearly he does. You’re turning it into a commentary about US foreign policy that I didn’t even make.

I assume, when you say it could possibly end a lot of suffering, that you think his meeting with Maduro might get sanctions lifted. But I don’t think it’s glib at all to point out that he’s never met a strongman he didn’t like.