Why is Joe Biden coddling Nicolas Maduro?

Nicolas Maduro is not just your average poorly performing leftist president — he is a dictator and a tyrant who leads an illegitimate regime. To keep himself in power has been a violent struggle at times. As recently as 2017, Maduro's regime was sending out armed gangs of red-shirted thugs to brutalize and even kill anti-regime protesters in the streets of cities and towns all across Venezuela.

The official position of the U.S. government is that Maduro stole an election in 2018 and is not the legitimate president of Venezuela....