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    1. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 16 Feb 2020

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      At some point, this stuff will be everywhere (and there's a lot). The only question is when. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/damned-if-the-do-doomed-if-they-dont-why-sanders-rivals-dont-go-negative/2020/01/30/851e91a6-42b4-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html … https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1228717543105454089 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan

      This stuff has been circulating for a long time. It hasn't had an impact yet. Maybe it will if it reaches a critical mass, but that's something we have to see.

      35 replies 7 retweets 110 likes
    3. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      see my column though - it hasn't been pushed by either side (yet) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/damned-if-the-do-doomed-if-they-dont-why-sanders-rivals-dont-go-negative/2020/01/30/851e91a6-42b4-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html …. being around online isn't the same thing.

      7 replies 4 retweets 30 likes
    4. Who Decided That?‏ @MCares37 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan @HeerJeet

      This idea that this hasn't been talked about endlessly since 2015 is a joke.

      6 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    5. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @MCares37 @BrendanNyhan @HeerJeet

      I’ve followed both campaigns closely, and am especially interested in the socialism question, and I’d only read an account of that egregious press conference - I’d never seen the footage.

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    6. Who Decided That?‏ @MCares37 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan @HeerJeet

      I've seen the footage before, but the idea that this footage is going to be a fundamental game changer like every network has not been calling him a radical socialist and screaming Venezuela for the past 4 years is just a joke.

      2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    7. Who Decided That?‏ @MCares37 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @MCares37 @JamesSurowiecki and

      That's not even including the socialist label has been thrown out a million times prior to Sanders. The idea some undecideds are going to have a freak out over Sanders saying something about a country that doesn't even exist anymore is ludicrous.

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    8. Who Decided That?‏ @MCares37 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @MCares37 @JamesSurowiecki and

      I'm sure the sheer weight of a billion plus dollars going against him in the general will have an effect, but this is not uniquely damaging.

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    9. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @MCares37 @BrendanNyhan @HeerJeet

      I don’t know about uniquely damaging, but I can’t believe it won’t hurt him in Florida when Trump coats the airwaves with footage of Sanders saying it almost made him puke to hear JFK talking about stopping communism in Cuba, because Bernie was so excited by the Cuban revolution.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

      He was talking about 1960 -- before Castro was a communist. The GOP will try to lose the nuance of this stuff, but should we?

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        1. Steven Smith‏ @esstheman 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

          If you're talking about "nuance", you're losing.

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @BrendanNyhan

          Come on, Jeet - we’ve known for 30+ years that Castro was a Communist when he took power, and was intent on making Cuba a Marxist-Leninist state from the start.

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        3. Bruce Bernstein  🌹‏ @bruce9876 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @BrendanNyhan

          What is your source on this, James? The histories I’ve read don’t say this. US started attacks on Cuba very early, I believe even 1959. Military attacks.

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        1. Kyle LeRoy‏ @KyleLeRoy 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

          It’s not like Trump or Bloomberg ever said anything nice about Communist dictators in the last few years. Oh wait Bloomberg said Xi Jingping “wasn’t a dictator” and Trump basically has had a four year bromance with Kim Jung Un.

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        1. PDG887‏ @PDG887 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

          He’s praised Castro and communist Cuba several times, not just in this instance or just for the revolution.

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @count3rmeasure @HeerJeet @BrendanNyhan

          Damn - I’m one of the people on this site who actually can treat it with nuance, since I’ve actually read all this stuff. But Castro’s politics were not nuanced - he was a Marxist-Leninist when he took over Cuba.

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        1. Somebody‏ @Lv99_Slacker 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

          You have that much faith in the American electorate in general to possess this level of nuance in understanding?

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        1. Non-fungible ass-penny‏ @Gefilthio1 16 Feb 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki @BrendanNyhan

          Yes. By then everyone knew what the horror was. The God that Failed was published more than a decade earlier.

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