>Lol but he literally didn't say any of this tho.

In my view, you can do the work of contextualizing this for him by filling in the blanks with an assumption that he was preoccupied with a larger conversation about Sanders' (utterly correct, incidentally) view of Cuba.

Or you can care about his literal wording. But that won't work because here's what he *literally* said: "we can't afford a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump and his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950's and Bernie Sanders with his nostalgia for the revolution politics of the 1960's."

There isn't an honest argument that features both of those moves.

>And even if someone did, such a view sounds more like a libertarian
>framework than a neocon one. And to be clear I'm neither, but
>just want to suggest some guardrails for these
>extrapolations.

Guardrails? He said something thoughtless. I'm describing why that thoughtlessness matters more than forgetting somebody's birthday.

>You see harm, I see optimism :)

Right. Fuck history. That'll probably work out fine.