1. Biggest mistake people make about Castro/Cuba is that they have reasonable goals, to make their country better.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
2. You can't ascribe goals to bad actors or have empathy with them because you are incapable of it. Dictators don't think like you do.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
3. The goals of the Castro regime are self-preservation and self-enrichment at the expense of everything else.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
4. The United States represents the biggest potential sucker in a long line of suckers that have financed the Castro regime.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
5. If the Castro bros had reasonable goals they would tone down the repression surrounding Obama's trip.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
6. But repression in Cuba has increased because regime is testing Obama's strength (or weakness) to see how far they can push.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
7. Like an oppositional child, the Castro brothers continue to probe the limits of the US's patience.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
8. They do this because their preference is to never concede anything UNLESS they have to. Obama hasn't made them.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
9. Obama is signaling that he wants/needs this opening more than they do. That gives them leverage.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
10. Which is why he got a reception "befitting the Ambassador from Burundi" and 200 dissidents were arrested.
— #NeverTrump (@HenryLGomez) March 21, 2016
11. When Obama proudly stands in front of a giant Che Guevara face with respect, he loses all credibility to ever speak on human rights again.