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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He was 39 years old in 1980, when he was an elector for the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, which called for “solidarity” with the revolutionary regimes in Iran (during the hostage crisis) and Cuba, among other authoritarian places
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Make an ad about that. See if it flies.
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JFK was very anticommunist for a Democrat in 1960, and the quote is Bernie realizing that Kennedy was accusing Eisenhower and Nixon (!) of being soft on communism, which was indeed objectively insane, and led to serious problems (and mass murder - read my book!) soon afterwards
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