Marco Rubio and other GOP figures have been complaining about a double standard with regard to Cuba and North Korea. Rubio thinks the (obviously left-wing) MSM was uncritical of Obama’s willingness to make nice with Raul, but far too skeptical of Trump’s approach to Kim.
Are they right? There are clear similarities: in both cases, the US decided to reach out to Communist dictators after decades of efforts to isolate them had failed to remove them from power. The difference is that, while the attempts to isolate the Kims had not resulted in regime change, they were, in fact, treated as pariahs by the rest of the world, whereas America’s hard line on Cuba had no support elsewhere. In other words, it was the US, not the Cubans, who came out of the wilderness by restoring diplomatic relations.
Not to mention, of course, that the charge of hypocrisy can be leveled at the GOP just as well as at the media.