There’s no way around the grotesque fact that millions of people all over the world woke up on Friday, Oct. 10, facing a dreadful question: Had Donald Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize? Whether that says more about Trump, about the troubled history of that blatantly misnamed award or about the world is a matter of opinion.
Well, that isn’t what happened. At least not technically. If most of those millions of people chose to heave a sigh of relief and scroll onward, without focusing on the details — OK, some pro-democracy activist in a massively screwed-up Latin American country that’s been in the headlines; fair enough, at least it wasn’t him — honestly, who can blame them?
But anyone who insists on blurring their vision badly enough to perceive the choice of Venezuelan opposition leader M