When there’s more fear that socialism might be on the rise and be an attractive ideology to people. Like, there’s an energy argument, but the energy argument is the one that would have made sense in the ’80s, not the one — nobody thinks that. That is almost exactly what the Trump administration fantasizes about in ways both literal and figurative. I think a lot of the ideological thinking around this has a kind of hoary, ’80s-era element. He has always been utterly hard-line and stubborn on the question of needing to overthrow the Cuban government.

Source: New York Times January 07, 2026 05:34 UTC