A Hard Week for the Hard Left | The American Spectator

It certain has been quiet the previous couple of days amongst the “democratic socialist” crowd.

Bernie Sanders, who can’t shut up about a lot of something most of the time, appears to have misplaced his tongue and his Twitter. Ditto for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow commie-harpies in the Squad.

Why do you suppose that’s?

One would think about the indisputable fact that one among the American Left’s pet regimes, that which governs the enslaved island of Cuba, is on the verge of toppling may need one thing to do with it.

It’s been a very attention-grabbing weekend in Cuba, as huge demonstrations have damaged out throughout the island and the Castroite authorities there has threatened to place them down with violence.

The outbreak of protest led to one among the more strange information leads, which landed the New York Times below a pile of ridicule:

Shouting “Freedom” and different anti-government slogans, a whole lot of Cubans took to the streets in cities round the nation on Sunday to protest meals and medication shortages, in a outstanding eruption of discontent not seen in almost 30 years.

Dan Bongino let the Times have it for that, stating that it summed up the divide between Left and Right in America completely. As Bongino put it, “Freedom” is a proper given by God, not authorities, and the Times‘ tweet selling its Cuba protection exhibits its staff have it backwards.

Perhaps they need to all get a bit of leeway. Times are a bit tough for the Left nowadays.

It’s been six months of Democrat management of virtually all the pieces in nationwide politics, to not point out a full-on rout in the tradition, media, and finance. They’re having their second in the solar, and but …

And but.

In the immortal phrases of Johnny Caspar, “Runnin’ things. It ain’t all gravy.”

Why are the Cubans taking to the streets? We’re advised that it’s as a result of there’s a recent surge of COVID-19 on the island and since tourism is down consequently.

But tourism isn’t down all over the place in the Caribbean. It’s coming again in the Bahamas and Jamaica, for instance. Maybe one motive it’s down in Cuba is that individuals with eyes can see the oppression, hopelessness, and poverty on show in the solely totalitarian dictatorship in the area, and — shockingly — totalitarian dictatorships don’t placed on as enjoyable a celebration as free nations do.

There is simply a lot attraction even leftists can discover in dilapidated buildings and 60-something-year-old hoopty automobiles wobbling their approach down potholed streets. For some time the narrative was that Cuban poverty and its standing as an anachronistic Fifties time capsule was one way or the other charming, and all that may be misplaced when American companies finally got here in and bulldozed these crumbling buildings to make room for steel-and-glass monstrosities.

Or one thing. The guess right here is extra that the McHaciendas, that are finally coming to Havana and elsewhere, can be much more aesthetically pleasing than the brutalist structure so favored by your native city metropolis council or federal bureaucrat, however that’s in all probability for one other column.

Cubans aren’t upset as a result of Los Yanquis are selecting Grand Cayman and Punta Cana for their summer season vacays. Nor are they mad due to inadequate COVID vaccine distribution, one other idiotic lie unfold after the streets stuffed there.

They have been yelling “freedom” and different “anti-government” slogans. Not anti-COVID slogans. They weren’t yelling “Moderna,” and so they weren’t carrying round papier-mâché busts of Anthony Fauci as the native lecturers union chapter would possibly.

The protesters even had American flags as they demonstrated, which is eye-openingly harmful in a spot like that. Carrying an American flag at an anti-government demonstration in Cuba is an effective way to get memory-holed till your dotage, if not tortured to dying by Thursday.

No marvel the cat received Bernie and AOC’s tongues. It doesn’t look good. And since they’ve regaled us with laughable BS for years about how Cuba’s medical system — which doesn’t even have clear needles or bandages, a lot much less hospital beds or MRI machines — is best than ours and the way Cuba is a extra “equitable” place than America, one thing that was insulting to the intelligence of all contemplating that Fidel Castro died richer than Mitt Romney (so did Hugo Chavez, their different idolized caudillo, by the approach), their silence is golden.

The Cuban folks, 1 / 4 of whom have gotten the hell out of there since Castro stormed the capital, are Upsetting the Narrative. But the Narrative is getting upset throughout the place in the previous couple of days, in case you haven’t seen.

Democrat legislators in Texas are having to flee the state so as to keep away from seeing crushing defeats in a particular session that may block just about all the pieces of their cultural agenda. Remember how Texas was turning blue? This isn’t actually what that appears like.

President Biden’s crime plan? Not all that well-received.

Consumer costs preserve rising, which we have been advised was probably not a factor.

Then there’s the collapse of the “Tucker Carlson-as-Alex-Jones” narrative, when it grew to become indeniable that Carlson was telling the fact about the NSA spying on him.

And the burgeoning political disaster that’s Hunter Biden’s artwork profession, whereas the laptop computer continues trickling out nuggets of pleasure.

Even the LEGO Set of Terror narrative couldn’t face up to the strain of the previous couple of days.

So yeah — Bernie Sanders and AOC, and many the others in the pro-communist crowd, don’t have quite a bit to say currently. It’s not a shock.

But it certain is welcome for a change.

Here’s hoping these demonstrations in Cuba sweep out that murderous regime, and if the potholes in the streets should be stuffed with blood so as to free Cuba, so be it. The repudiation of that regime, and its fellow-traveling shills right here stateside, is lengthy overdue.