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by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
We are witnessing classic conservative hypocrisy with their predictable opposition to the lifting of the 54-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba. That includes many Latin American conservatives who have come to view the U.S. government as their “papasito” and who are now lamenting that the U.S. government might no longer be intervening on their behalf in Cuba.
Let’s count five ways that conservative hypocrisy is manifesting itself.
1. Conservatives love to preach their favorite mantra: “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.”
Yet, the embargo has always been a direct attack on the rights of the American people to freely engage in economic enterprise with the Cuban people. Keep in mind that if an American spends even a dime in Cuba, the U.S. government prosecutes him and attempts to jail him for 10 years, with the full support of conservatives.