Why does the left say we must condemn Donald Trump while they praise Fidel Castr
Imagine a president who got rid of freedom of the press, rounded up homosexuals to force them into re-education camps, had multiple women delivered to his office daily for sex (more than 35,000 total) and treated his people so horribly that over a million fled the country?These are just a few of the scenarios segments of the left have feared might happen when President Donald Trump assumes office, but each actually did happen under former Cuban President Fidel Castro, who died late Friday at 90.
So many today say Trump must be unequivocally denounced for the existential danger he poses to American liberty before he’s even done anything.
But Castro? Too many today say Castro was a complicated figure we should try to better understand.
No, we shouldn’t. We know enough.
Related: Jimmy Carter releases a statement expressing his sympathy following the death of Fidel Castro
So many who dare to defend Castro are basically lamenting that his socialist experiment didn’t live up to their ideological expectations, while intentionally ignoring the demonstrable pain he caused.
Half of their mistake is laughable; the other half, deplorable.
World leaders should be judged by their actual actions and not by ideologues’ hopes. Marxists and others on the left who had once hoped the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other socialist states might become successful templates for world revolution, instead saw totalitarian societies of our worst nightmares unfurl. Leftists in the West and around the world were slow to acknowledge the atrocities and suffering under Joseph Stalin’s regime, and even during the Vietnam era confused opposing an unjust war with sympathy for communists. “If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao…” John Lennon memorably sang of protesters in 1968.
With Castro’s death, we’re seeing some of the same blindness, but it’s particularly hypocritical in a post-election environment where so much of the left fears Donald Trump will literally become a brutal dictator.
Compare the reactions of UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to Castro’s death and Trump’s election.
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