Chances are, I will never be a questioner at a Democratic debate. But I have some ideas. And I’d like to mention one in this post. First, I’ll have to quote from my column today, which is about Obama, Cuba, and our president’s upcoming trip to that island.

I mention that Reagan was once president — and he was the type to make Armando Valladares his ambassador for human rights. (Valladares had emerged from 22 years in the Cuban gulag.)

Also, George W. Bush was once president. He was the type to award Oscar Biscet the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in absentia. (Biscet is the great democracy leader who was then in prison.)

Barack Obama is no Reagan or W. — on that, both Left and Right can readily agree. During the Reagan years, Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. Whom did his teachers and classmates admire more? Fidel Castro or Reagan? The Cuban dictatorship or the Republican party?
Was Obama part of the consensus? As we speak now, in 2016, where’s his head at (as we might have said in the old days)?

I’m sure this would be seen by many as McCarthyite, Red-baiting — but I’d like to ask Bernie and Hillary, “Whom do you admire more? Fidel Castro or Reagan? Which do you admire more? The Republican party or the Cuban government?”

From Bernie, you might get an interesting answer. He is pretty candid about his beliefs — witness his self-avowal as a socialist. Hillary? More slippery, of course.

There are so many things Democrats can’t say. They can’t say “radical Islam.” They can’t say “All lives matter.” They can’t even say “illegal immigrant” — Hillary has pledged never to use the term. Has Bernie? I haven’t seen it.

In the Democratic party, can you get away with saying you admire Reagan more than Castro? That would have to be tested. What if there were a Bernie/Hillary split?

Bernie, of course, honeymooned in the Soviet Union. Bill de Blasio, the Democratic mayor of New York, honeymooned in the Castros’ Cuba. What about Bill ’n’ Hill? That one, I can’t answer.

Anyway, I’ve given you my little debate fantasy. My question, concerning Cuba, the GOP, and all that, would go to the heart of worldview, I think.