There were no Spanish representatives when Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico’s first female president this month. The hard-left former mayor of Mexico City wanted the king of Spain to apologize for the “tremendously violent, painful, and unjustifiable” conquest of the Aztecs. Spain’s socialist government dismissed her demand, noting sardonically that Sheinbaum saw no problem with asking Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose crimes are a lot less than 500 years old. In the end, with their king disinvited, Spanish ministers also boycotted the inauguration.

It was bound to cross the border sooner or later, this obsession with white guilt that has become the most irritating American export of the 21st century. Everything is seen through the lens of imagined victimhood. History is reduced to a morality play about slavery and colonialism (though, in real life, the latter was in no small part launched to stamp out the former).