Josh Kraushaar on Twitter
“In “60 Minutes” interview, Sanders goes out of his way praise elements of Castro’s reign of Cuba. “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but it’s unfair to say everything’s bad. When Castro came into office you know what he did? He had a literacy program.””twitter.com
Donald Trump praises several dictators and never condemns a thing they do.
Then why are we sky is falling every little thing?
IMO, it's a very nuanced opinion that unfortunately, I feel a lot of American voters simply will not understand that nuance. Even if he is right.
Again, though, when we literally know what the attacks are going to be, and there are things coming out of the man's mouth that reinforce these attacks, I have no idea why everyone wants to just hand waive this shit away. You are expecting the American people to understand nuance. The american electorate is incapable of understanding nuance. When presented with BERNIE IS A SOCIALIST COMMUNIST WHO LOVES CASTRO....and then you have a clip of him praising something Castro did in the year of our Lord 2020, the idea that no one is going to care about htat, that people are going to sit down and say "Well, okay, but Trump said something nice about a dictator so I guess it's totally the same and/or Bernie's is better" is just...it's not based in reality.
not answering the question would have absolutely been worse.
Nixon's economic politics were legitimately on the left. He wanted a social democratic apartheid state.
I mean, I don't honestly know what to tell you if you really don't think praising a communist dictator is a bad faith attack and that no one will care about it. Hillary actually brought his praise up of Castro in 2016, and that's one of the many reasons he lost Florida. if you praise Castro, you are not winning the state of Florida. We can handwave that away as "We don't have to win Florida" or whatever, but when Bernie is already having problems with older voters, when we know what the lines of attack are going to be, doubling down on shit like that is asinine. There are very few (if any) statements in politics that are entirely positive or entirely negative. Praising the troops is probably as close to universally positive as you can get, tbh. There is no benefit whatsoever to giving the benefit of the doubt to Fidel Castro. None whatsoever. There is no voter who is suddenly going to be "You know what, he's right. That Fidel....he had a damn good literacy program."
Like I said, it's just unforced error and kinda reinforces one of my biggest fears about him, that he won't revise past stances even if he feels he is 100% right. Pivot off this shit ASAP. We lose elections through a million tiny cuts targeted at various slices of the electorate. For you and I, this isn't a big deal. We're intelligent enough (or at least you are, I stand by the fact I'm a dumbass) to parse what he's saying. If a candidate wants to win Florida, you literally cannot get within 10 miles of a nice comment about Castro. There is, unfortunately, a pretty decent segment of the population who is still terrified of the Red Scare and this kind of shit leans hard into their priors about socialism.
I seriously doubt it's anyone but Biden after the NV results.
It isn't, not with the massive attention the pre-LV debate got and without NV's bizarre Early Voting system that was a week away from the election.
tough questions don't go away if you just choose not to answer them. they become the news cycle and then they get brought up again anyway, often in less well-intentioned ways.
did you even read the piece or are you just kneejerk reacting to a removed-of-context headline change
Josh Kraushaar on Twitter
“In “60 Minutes” interview, Sanders goes out of his way praise elements of Castro’s reign of Cuba. “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but it’s unfair to say everything’s bad. When Castro came into office you know what he did? He had a literacy program.””
Gwen Graham:
The clip:
60 Minutes on Twitter
“Bernie Sanders defends his 1980s comments about Fidel Castro in an interview on 60 Minutes. https://t.co/ySqvQKoiBU https://t.co/lTwuXWp9sA”
trust me from personal experience. when you change a headline like that, it becomes the news story regardless of what the article is about, lol.
STOP SAYING THIS.
