Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Jonah Goldberg, David

French and the one and only Chris Steyerwalt. This week we will talk about the protests in Cuba,

vaccine hesitancy continuing, the Democrats fleeing Texas over voting, and the social media

and tech bills popping up in different states.

Let's dive right in, Jonah. protests continue in Cuba.

Yes, and I hope they continue for a good long while. There's a lot of, there's a lot of

wishful thinking and a lot of known unknowns and unknown unknowns. I for one I'm glad that

that formulation has come back in the wake of, of, of, of, of gone Robsfeld's death because

it's actually a great way to go to understand, you know, decision trees. So the current dictator

in Cuba has only been in power for about four, four months, something like that five months,

and it's unclear whether he's got this way, this way and the, the skills to actually

take care of a burgeoning democracy, pro-democracy movement. And I'm cautiously optimistic and

I can get to my reasons why in a second. And I also have some half-baked ideas about

what we should be doing. But I guess the, we'll start off with the sort of basic foreign

policy question before we get to the political question and I'll throw it to David. What

should Biden be doing and, and is he doing it?

Uh, yeah, that's a really good question. You know, one of the things that happens whenever

we begin to see an uprising in a, a totalitarian foreign country is, you know, the easy layup

thing is that we stand with the protesters to declare that unequivocally through the,

that, that's kind of the layup. And of course, protesters like it when the most powerful

nation in the world declares publicly for their cause. It doesn't change the facts on

the ground. Uh, it doesn't concretely adjust the power balance in the country. It can certainly

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