evidence: 16. Sometimes, dictators can do good things - Sanders told CBS in February it would be "unfair" to say "everything is bad" about Cuba's communist revolution. Critics then brought up how as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1985, Sanders praised Nicaraguan left-wing Sandinistas strongman Daniel Ortega as "an impressive guy", downplaying reports of rights abuses there. Sanders' fans are sometimes dubbed "Sandernistas". [...] Read more on Bernie Sanders SANDERS PROFILE: Why he likes beating the odds