VIVA FIDEL?  HARDLY – AT 12:40 P.M. ET:   The old dictator is gone.  And while the left weeps and wails, another crushing blow after Hillary's defeat, others have another, more mature point of view.  From College Fix: 

Fidel Castro’s crimes against humanity “dwarfed” those of Augusto Pinochet, yet which Latin American dictator was arrested in London and which was greeted in Spain with “ample fanfare, unmolested,” around the same time in 1998?

Carlos Eire, Yale professor of history and religious studies, scolds the “many intellectuals, journalists and educated people in the First World” who enabled the Cuban strongman by falling for his lies, which were “beautiful and so appealing,” in a Washington Post op-ed.

Castro “imprisoned, tortured and murdered thousands more of his own people than any other Latin American dictator,” yet reminding Western elites of his real record was “usually futile,” says Eire.

Their defense of Castro had the intensity of “religious convictions."

And...

Castro was the “spitting image of Big Brother,” Eire says – persecuting gays, trying to eradicate religion, censoring “all means of expression,” creating an “apartheid society” where only foreigners had rights, delivering “inferior health care” to the masses, wiping out the middle class and jailing a greater share of his countrymen than even Joseph Stalin had done.

COMMENT:  I often get the feeling that the left is more of a distorted religion than a political program.  It is absolute belief, belief on faith.  Dissent is discouraged.  And there is an assurance of a kind of political Heaven, where you go if you've followed the party line.

The left controls American education.  But if the recent election is any indicator, a large contingent of Americans is turning against it.  Lack of results matters.

December 4, 2016