Like Trump?

A recent column title reads,"Like Trump, Bernie won't back down." Now, wait a minute. What the writer is talking about is Sanders' doubling down on defending the Castro regime and his enabling the USSR and Nicaragua, too, while he was at it. My memory may be faulty but when did Trump EVER say something like the following:

"Gee, you know I have to say that we do tend to exaggerate about how bad the Jim Crow South was. Stats for blacks socially and economically then were much better than they are now." or,

"I know Hitler was an authoritarian (and BTW I'm NOT an authoritarian, I'm a Democrat) but he did give us Volkswagen and the Autobahn. We can learn from that, you know." or,

"That Mussolini he sure made the trains run on time."

Indeed, contemporaneously, everyone from Shaw to Astor to Lloyd-George to Lindbergh to Miller to, well, Sanders and nearly our entire elite once praised dictatorships when they were in their full flower. The difference between Sanders and the rest of those apologists is that they stopped doing it when they realized they were wrong or it wasn't popular anymore to talk that way. Sanders keeps going like some sort of louche Red Energizer bunny who, in a strange communist impression of the Bourbons, remembers everything but learns nothing. 

Meanwhile, Trump, whose only activity that is anything like Sanders' comments is embarrassing praise from time to time for Putin (a terrible dictator but nothing like in the League of Hitler, Stalin, Castro or Mao)0 and pointing out that the violence at Charlottesville was on both sides, Antifa and the KKK, is therefore defamed when he is compared in any way to what Sanders does and thinks, apparently with impunity. Open ended praise of Putin meanwhile was interpreted to mean Trump is a Russian agent. The Double Standard strikes again.