"Schadenfreude" can be defined as feeling happy when something goes wrong for someone.  In the case of the left's fascination with and praise for Venezuela over the years, the current catastrophe in that country has absolutely vindicated those of us who knew that the fall of the Chavistas was inevitable and that the moral blindness of the left to the authoritarian impulses of Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, would come back to bite them someday. Today is that day. James Kirchick in the L.A. Times: The list of Western leftists who once sang the Venezuelan government's praises is long, and Naomi Klein figures near the top. In 2004, she signed a petition headlined, "We would vote for Hugo Chavez." Three years later, she lauded Venezuela as a place where "citizens had renewed their faith in the power of democracy to improve their lives." In her 2007 book, "The Shock...(Read Full Post)