Matt Taibbi, The Liberal Embrace of War, Rolling Stone

Now I know Maddow, like Buttigeg, is Super-Smart and has many attractive marketing qualities, but, um, like, this: 

Earlier this month, onetime fierce Iraq war opponent Rachel Maddow went on TV to embrace John Bolton in a diatribe about how the poor National Security Adviser has been thwarted by Trump in efforts to topple Maduro.

“Regardless of what you thought about John Bolton before this, his career, his track record,” Maddow said. “Just think about John Bolton as a human being.”

The telecast was surreal. It was like watching Dick Cheney sing “Give Peace a Chance.”

Bolton stood out as a bomb-humping nut even among the Bush-era functionaries who pushed us into Iraq. He’s the living embodiment of “benevolent hegemony,” an imperial plan first articulated in the nineties by neoconservatives like Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan.

You'll of course drop Maddow, whom you've worshiped, for this insanity, right? Of course not right: she's smart, you're smart for thinking she's smart, and that's all that matters. The rest is fake news! Plus, Doug, didn't you study Russian in grad school? Oh, you did?

Do I even need to say anything more?????? We're through the looking glass, people!!!!!!!!!!

Read on; Taibbi breaks it down as per usual.