Bernie Sanders Lost Florida the Moment He Started Praising Castro (Again)
The Castro regime is responsible for undeniable atrocities. Generations of Cuban American voters will never forget this.
It was Grandparents’ Day at my high school in Tampa, Florida, about 18 years ago, and my Cuban American grandfather was explaining to my Spanish teacher how horribly expensive eggs were in Cuba.
This particular memory of my abuelo, who passed away in 2006, remained distant in my mind until this February when it suddenly came back to me along with a wave of nausea as my favorite presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, repeatedly highlighted the sunny side of the Castro regime.
At the Democratic presidential debate on March 15, held just days ahead of the Florida primary, Sanders refused to back down from his praise of Fidel Castro’s literacy program. Instead, Sanders reiterated what he told 60 Minutes in an interview a month earlier, saying though he condemns the authoritarian nature of Castro’s dictatorship, he also sees it in a positive light. “I think we condemn authoritarianism whether it’s in China, Russia, Cuba, or anyplace else,” Sanders said at CNN’s head-to-head debate against Joe Biden. “But to simply say that nothing ever done by any of those administrations…
