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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Cuba outcry from the right should dissipate rather quickly
The repubs will start to see the dollar signs. Sure, there will be wingnut zealots banging the drum for a while, but they will be drowned out shortly by the commerce wing of the party as soon as they can figure out how to make a boatload of money in the new reality.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This is a fixation among a very small and shrinking group of voters. Everybody else either doesn't care or thinks the current policy is bone stupid.
Lots of people want to drink Havana Club seven year and smoke Cohibas without all this bullshit from two generations ago, never mind weekend trips to Varedero.
JI7
(89,252 posts)people usually went to vacation and during things like spring breaks.
cuba would be a great alternative
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)everything anyway
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)For all the anti-communist rhetoric the conservatives bleat, they are yet remarkably tolerant of the policy of engagement with communist China. Of course we know that's true because the commerce wing uses China for rent-seeking and labor arbitrage. They'll soon see Cuba as another maliquidora. Not that it is a good thing, but it does paint the wingnuts as they are: Xenophobes.
Ink Man
(171 posts)people with suitcases full of US dollars are on the ground in Cuba now buying anything they can. I bet we see a walmart before summer.
Rex
(65,616 posts)This came out of left field and they have problems adapting to change.
Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)It's funny when the progressive thing to do also inadvertently helps business.
It always puts Repukes in a horrible position.