A Radical Chic President in Communist Cuba

Sycophancy is having the effect is always does: it is telling our enemies they can behave with impunity.

by Senator Ted Cruz
March 22, 2016

Yesterday and today (3/21-22) are sad days in American history. For decades, leftists and Hollywood liberals have made the pilgrimage to Cuba to pay homage to Fidel Castro and Raul Castro. It’s very chic, it’s very shi-shi, for leftists to celebrate vicious communist dictators.

Communist Havana has always been a magnet for the radical chic of the left, drawn like moths to the flame of this western outpost of totalitarian Communism. Back in the 1960s, the visitors included Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael, while Che Guevara himself received Jean-Paul Sartre. Today, the President of the United States joined them.

This is an issue I know firsthand. My family has experienced the ravage of Communist Cuba. My father fought for the Cuban revolution. My father was imprisoned and tortured as a teenager by Batista. And my aunt, my Tia Sonia, was imprisoned and tortured by Castro’s goons.

Now, as President Obama is in Cuba, you know who he’s not going to meet? He…