Psaki Avoids Blaming Communism For Cuban Unrest

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   It's not some huge, definitive thing...but her response was consistent with the intentional avoidance of condemning communism. As I've argued about Trump, though: there's interpersonal stuff operant, too. Sometimes if someone's trying to get you to say something, and you think it's stupid or insulting to try to get you to say it, or you just don't want to be their dancing monkey, or whatever, you just drag your feet about saying it. Trump, for example, was way fed up with being falsely accused of racism, and he'd already condemned it many times. And sometimes his condemnations would be twisted into non-condemnations or endorsements by our evil MSM. Also, he's cantankerous. So he just started refusing to play that game.

   Biden's not a communist...but elements of the party are outright socialists...and it seems to me that they're at least sympathetic with communism. So it's possible that Psaki and the admin just don't want to get something started with AOC et al.

   Anyway...serious question: why pass up a good chance to condemn communism?

   Obama used to avoid condemning Islamism...but that was apparently because he didn't want to cause any more friction with Muslims, Islam, and Islamic states. So I gave him a pass on that one. It's possible that there's something similar at work here--but that doesn't really make a lot of sense so far as I can tell.