Posted on 11/26/2016 7:48:33 AM PST by rktman
The death of Fidel Castro last night has sparked an outpouring of reverie and adulation on the left and a wave of revulsion from those less enamored of the thuggish dictator.
Paul Mirengoff of Powerline looks at the reaction from the Washington Post and New York Times – two of the dictator's most fervent disciples:
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One commie gone, millions to go.
The mantra on the Left — Communism is a good; they just didn’t implement it correctly.
Hey, you got give them a “E” for effort cause they keep trying to “improve” on it all the time.
To Obama...giving money to communists and socialists by whatever means is a step forward....but that's half a... backwards.
Hey-ho the derry-o....!
Poor guy. When the Hildabeast lost he just gave up hope.
“The mantra on the Left — Communism is a good; they just didn’t implement it correctly.”
Having lived in officially communist country I laugh at that statement. Tell the cadres in the PRC they are not implementing it correctly to their face. Go ahead, be my guest.
Will Traitorobama order U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff?!?
Would be nice if Bernie Sanders and the rest of the bozos went to Venezuela to see who great things are there, but they wouldn’t have the guts and most of the media won’t report the mess socialism has caused that country.
“China has embraced capitalism. It’s more a fascist state.”
I agree but I still wouldn’t say that to a party member in China.
We need to accept that it is fundamentally flawed and will never work.
Can you imagine the despair in the newsrooms of the Red press? Not only did their czarina lose the election, but now their venerable hero has gone to meet his Maker. Times are bleak indeed in the halls of American communism, with much wailing and rending of designer garments.
and God holds them in derision....
Didn’t see the same adulation when another strongman, Pinochet passed on, who actually accomplished something making Chile the most prosperous country in Latin America, while Castro took Cuba from first to worst.
Few Americans and especially the snowflakes understand how bad it can truly be. Americans have become complacent and many are ingrates.
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