On the morning after the disgraceful sham of Donald Trump’s “conviction” in Manhattan, it may seem odd to some readers that I would be pondering the career of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, but it’s impossible for me to ignore the lessons we apparently failed to learn from that once-prosperous country’s poisonous downfall. Maduro got his start in public life as a labor union leader. (Go figure.) By 2010 he had been elected to the National Assembly and quickly rose to a leadership position in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. He rapidly built a coalition of fellow travelers and in only at few years he was elevated to the presidency in 2013. Maduro immediately began moving to remove most of the members of the Supreme Court, replacing them with his own lackeys, knowing how important control of the judiciary is in a dictatorship. He proceeded to pillage the country’s wealth…
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