The death of inclusion

The death of inclusion

It has been almost a week, but a line from Marco Rubio's concession speech keeps echoing in my mind: "[We've run] a campaign to be a president that would love all of the American people, even the ones that don't love you back."

This isn't a requiem for Rubio's campaign, but when he left the race we may have lost our last hope of a candidate whose focal point in campaigning was inclusion.

Victims of communism in Cuba: 73,000
Barack Obama

Victims of communism in Cuba: 73,000

Michael W. Chapman

As President Barack Obama currently visits Cuba, it merits noting that the Communist regime south of Florida has killed an estimated 73,000 people since the dictator Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which was established by an act of Congress in 1993.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which runs the Museum of Communism, is a non-profit group created "to educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism," reads its website. It also is building a memorial "to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism" worldwide.

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