SOCIALIST SANDERS SILENT: Bernie mute on Cuban pro-freedom uprisings after praising Castro's communist policies
"I remember, for some reason or another, being very excited when Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba," he said at the time."I was a kid ... and it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people.". Sanders' seeming affinity for communist policies doesn't end with Cuba.
Fidel Castro relinquished power to his brother, Raúl, in 2011 after nearly half a century in charge of the island nation; Fidel died in 2016.published a column in which she gushed over the self-declared Democratic Socialist's"ascension." "He has changed the whole debate in the nation’s capital. He is the guy trying to yank his party back to its working-class roots and steer President Biden in a bolder, more progressive direction," Dowd wrote.
She continued:"Sanders passionately believes that the only way to undo the damage done by Donald Trump and Trumpism is by showing that government can deliver, that good policy can overcome dangerous conspiracy theories and lies." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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