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Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson warned President-elect Donald Trump against reversing President Obama’s executive order opening diplomatic relations with Cuba. The liberal pundit argued that putting pressure on the authoritarian regime would be “the one thing that could keep Fidel Castro, metaphorically, and his revolution alive and his system of oppression alive...”
Robinson acted as if the United States was responsible for the lack of freedom in the Communist nation: “...why wouldn't we want them to have internet, why wouldn’t we want them to have cell phones? Let ideas flow in, let Americans flow in.” He further blamed America: “And I think our hardline policies frankly extended the life of the Castro regime beyond its sort of natural sell-by date.”