Atlantic magazine staff writer Robert F. Worth should be given credit for his in-depth reporting on the scene from the island of the economic devastation in Cuba as the result of decades of Communist oppression and mismanagement as you can see in his Monday story, "The Collapse of Cuba."
In fact his reporting appears to be quite truthful to the extent he revealed a very painful truth about himself. Namely that he allows his TDS to take hold of him to the extent as to appear utterly ridiculous.
He could have easily ignored (or misreported) the fact that during the entire time he was in Cuba, not a single Cuban blamed President Donald Trump for their economic woes. In addition, Worth was also honest to the extent that he reported that this irked him so much that he reacted with embarrassing TDS. This is Worth's account of what happened:
Here is another measure of Cubans’ anger at their government: During nine days of travel around the island, I did not meet a single person who blamed Donald Trump or the United States for their situation. I sometimes reminded them about the blockade Trump had started earlier this year, cutting Cubans off from the cheap oil that Venezuela had been supplying before the U.S. military captured Nicolás Maduro in January. Hadn’t things gotten worse since then?
To his credit, Worth also reported on the Cuban responses to his TDS lecturing:
“I don’t see any change since January,” a retired engineer named Guillermo Almeida told me. “That oil from Venezuela wasn’t reaching the people anyway.” He and others said that the more important turning point was the coronavirus pandemic, which destroyed Cuba’s tourism industry and shrank the value of remittances from family members abroad that many Cubans depend on, exposing more fully a state that had long been depleted. Another man put it differently: “It seems to us that the real embargo is inside of Cuba.”
So an Ivy Leaguer born and raised in Manhattan was so upset by Cubans living their entire lives suffering under Communist oppression NOT blaming Trump that he Lib-splains to them why they should blame Trump for their woes. Yes, that is both highly embarrassing and absurd. However, we do have to congratulate Worth for his transparent honesty in reporting this laughable TDS incident.
