Commentary No one should downplay, much less deny, the acts of idiocy that went on during the self-styled Freedom Convoy of big rigs in Ottawa. Making buffoons of themselves by trying to coerce a homeless shelter to provide food or urinating on and otherwise mocking monuments in the Parliament Hill precincts, some (operative word some) did diminish the nobility of the protest. To paraphrase a long-ago colleague of mine in the newspaper business talking about the woo-woo cohort of our subscribers, “some of our fellow citizens are idiots, but those idiots are our fellow citizens.” We have to expect as a given that wherever a group of human beings gather, there’s always the risk a few will display the manners of an unfed pig, and the common sense of a rutting elk. To expect is not to excuse. But there is no excuse, either, for Prime Minister Trudeau’s smearing of …