While I don't really have a problem with starting down the road to more normal relations with Cuba (I mean after all, Democratic hero JFK sort of invaded the place, and then blocked shipments and what not . . . before getting killed and thus bringing the next Democratic hero into office who faked an incident at sea and got 50,000 plus American's killed and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese . . . which subsequently got hundreds of thousands of Cambodians killed etc. etc. so on and so forth).
But it is fascinating that this seems to all have been done with little or no debate, discussion or consultation with elected representatives. Prog-libs seem to really enjoy dictatorial types.
Probably lots of prog-lib factions that are none-to-pleased a religious guy was heavily involved.
Prog-Libs are strange, and extremely partisan.