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CNN Contributor Shreds Democrats For Being Silent On Cuba Because Some ‘Want To Enact Many Of Cuba’s Policies’

By • July 19, 2021 2:38 pm

Many Democrats, according to a Washington Post reporter, do not want to “go hard” on the Cuban regime since they agree with many of its ideas.

Toluse Olorunnipa, a reporter for The Washington Post who focuses on racial justice issues and is a CNN contributor said that progressives are fond of socialist measures supported by Cuba’s communist government.

“They are really being led by the progressive wing of their party, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party does not want to go hard against Cuba, against some of the things that the Castro regime may have been a part of,” Olorunnipa  stated on CNN’s “Inside Politics” Sunday.

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“In part, because there are some Democrats, there are some progressives who agree with some of those things. They agree with universal health care, they agree with some of the programs that were in place in a more socialist kind of society,” he added.

On Twitter, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel reacted, “The far left is driving the Democrat Party’s agenda, and they want to enact many of Cuba’s dangerous policies here in the U.S.”

“Radical Democrats have been trying to push socialism in America for years. Liberals have been pushing an anti patriotism… narrative. Is anyone surprised that many Democrats and the Biden White House aren’t stronger in denouncing communism & socialism?” said GOP National Spokesman Paris Dennard.

In a statement regarding the protests, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a popular progressive, highlighted the alleged role of the American embargo in deteriorating Cuban circumstances, reported by the The Daily Wire.

“We are seeing Cubans rise up and protest for their rights like never before. We stand in solidarity with them, and we condemn the anti-democratic actions led by President Diaz-Canel. The suppression of the media, speech, and protest are all gross violations of civil rights,” she said according to the outlet.

“We also must name the U.S. contribution to Cuban suffering: our sixty-year-old embargo. Last month, once again, the U.N. voted overwhelmingly to call on the United States to lift its embargo on Cuba. The embargo is absurdly cruel and, like too many other U.S. policies targeting Latin Americans, the cruelty is the point. I outright reject the Biden administration’s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against everyday people,” she continued.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been remorseful toward the Castro dictatorship for decades.

“But I remember for some reason rather being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba, and it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people, and I remember watching the Nixon-Kennedy debates and I was very excited and impressed about the Cuban revolution… And Kennedy was saying that Nixon was too soft on communism… I actually got up from the room and almost left to puke,” Sanders said during his younger years.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit that socialist-leaning Democrats should relocate to Cuba: “Just once, I want to see a left-wing socialist — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC — go down to Key West, get on a raft, and sail 90 miles south to the socialist paradise.”

“Ronald Reagan said years ago the thing the Left never seems to understand is the Berlin Wall that divided East Germany from West Germany, the Berlin Wall, the machine guns all point in one direction. The analogy I’m fond of using as a Cuban-Americans is the thing that liberals never seem to understand if you go down to Key West, is the rafts are only going one direction,” Cruz highlighted.

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