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Bernie Sanders’s defense of communism is intentional

By Kaylee McGhee White

Published February 26, 2020 3:46pm ET

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Bernie Sanders’s defense of communism is intentional — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during First in the South Dinner, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. | (Matt Rourke/AP)

Bernie Sanders continues to defend the achievements, trivial as they may be, of brutal and tyrannical governments, namely, Fidel Castro’s communist dictatorship in Cuba.

“When dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good,” Sanders said during Tuesday’s Democratic debate, Democrats ought “to acknowledge that.”

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