While it’s important to tell the truth about Mandela as he was and South Africa as it is that doesn’t solve the media problem nor counter the club that the left/media will use on us with low information voters.

◼ Time for us to Play the Mandela Card Against the Left - datechguy/Minority Report

The secular sainthood myth of Mandela is based on a single undeniable fact, that he is pretty much the only Leftist communist revolutionary in history that didn’t abuse the power he eventually won to gain wealth & power for himself and repress and slaughter those who disagreed with him using either government or extra government methods.

...That is so atypical, so extraordinary (even the peaceful Norwegians after liberation from the Nazis executed Quisling) that I have no problem calling Mandela “great” but more importantly what if we on the right embrace that standard and hold the left to it?

For example, when the left praises Castro, we put Uncle Fidel up against the Mandela Standard

Mandela: Didn’t keep power for himself for 50 years.
Mandela: Didn’t keep a secret police watching his political foes.
Mandela: Didn’t keep dissidents from leaving
Mandela: Held free elections with multiple parties
Mandela: Didn’t have the wives of jailed prisoners beaten

Do you see? The left always seems to have excuses for murderous communist tyrants and dictators, but when we play the Mandela card how do they justify these acts when Mandela himself didn’t do them?

And that doesn’t have to be applied only to foreign affairs consider:

Mandela never used the tax system against his political foes
Mandela never summarily suspended law
Mandela didn’t use the government to suppress his political foes....

◼ link - Andrew Kaczynski/Buzzfeed
◼ Everyone liked Andrew Kaczynski's Seven Nelson Mandela Quotes You Probably Won't See In The U.S. Media. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ The Mandela Myth - Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage