The funniest thing about the campaign to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize is that, since they didn’t want to give it to him, they ended up awarding it to María Corina Machado — so nobody could complain and everyone would be happy. These are complicated times for the Left. Trump has achieved something incredible in Palestine, dealt a historic blow to the UN, and exposed the entire high-cost, high-failure European social-democratic diplomacy and its monstrous institutions. They are furious because the Left needs things to go wrong. This isn’t a barroom comment — it’s an uncomfortable truth, a historical truth.

The nature of revolution, the seed of the Left, is destructive, not constructive. The symbol of the Right is a normal family living a normal life and a national flag. The symbol of the Left is a raised fist, a defiant woman showing off a muscle, a hammer, and sickle — almost always bloodied — or an antisemitic banner.

Conservatives have a positive vision of life. The Left doesn’t have a vision; it has a plan to destroy the conservatives’ way of life. Progressives are usually angry, because living in opposition is frustrating enough… but now that they’re running out of protests to attend, taxes to raise, and immediate reasons to destroy businesses and trash cans, they’re even angrier.

The driving force of the Left is hatred disguised as love. The driving force of the Right is love, often caricatured as hate. We can debate this for hours and pretend it’s just a normal ideological clash, but we’d be wasting our time if we ignore the fact that there’s no political symmetry between the two sides — and there never has been. For too long, we’ve lived under the white — and dangerous — lie that it does.

As for the Nobel Peace Prize itself, it’s completely discredited. It’s been awarded to Amnesty International, Rigoberta Menchú, Yasser Arafat (insert your laugh here), the scoundrel Kofi Annan, the sharpest pencil in Jimmy Carter’s pencil case, Al Gore the bear whisperer, and Barack Obama, who got it as soon as he took office because it had been reserved for him from the day he was born, regardless of his actions or words.

I can’t understand how so much prestige comes from for an award that has gone to some of the most sinister and evil figures in history. Yet I celebrate María Corina Machado receiving it because, after all, if the prize ever had a reason to exist — like when Mother Teresa of Calcutta received it — and if it ever sought to be fair and serve as a model of peace and freedom, the Venezuelan woman represents it perfectly.

These are bad times for Nicolás Maduro, and that’s always good news. Suddenly, his drug-laden ships are exploding — not as mysterious sabotage or settling scores, but in operations proudly displayed by the U.S. government,  achieving the intended effect: making it clear that Trump is at war with drug trafficking, narco-terrorism, and narco-states like Venezuela. Maduro’s mustache has been receding at the edges lately, as if he wants to become independent of it.

Much of the Left has refused to congratulate the Venezuelan fighter on her Nobel Peace Prize, and that’s all you need to know to appreciate the historic success of awarding it to her. The opposition to Maduro is an example for the entire free world. Not only have they had to endure dictatorship, torture, and death, but they’ve also survived the most pernicious foreign interference, betrayals by some of their leaders, and the obvious stupidity of others. María Corina has stood firm, like a stake in the desert, for freedom and against Maduro’s dictatorship.

After all, what I wish is for someone to invent a Nobel Prize for War — and for us to award it to the entire international Left that’s angry because the historic peace agreement was achieved by Trump, and not, who knows, a prominent leader of the Communist Party of Nepal — Black, transgender, a trade unionist, Maoist, and one-eyed.

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