Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) really loved this one politician in 1985. Not Ronald Reagan (obviously), not former presidents John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson, or even former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The politician that Sanders adored: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
At the time, Sanders was the mayor of Burlington and was interviewed by the Center for Media & Democracy’s Channel 17/Town Meeting Television about his trip to Nicaragua. In the interview he made comparisons between Marxist dictator Daniel Ortega and Castro. Sanders just could not get enough of Castro:
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