Katrina vanden Heuvel: Today’s GOP is out of sync with Cuban Americans

[marmar]

from the WaPo:



by Katrina vanden Heuvel


“I probably have six Cuban grandmothers, and ten Cuban mothers,” joked then-Florida governor Jeb Bush at the Cuban Liberty Council’s annual dinner 10 years ago, where he was the guest of honor. “You can always count on me to do what I can to make sure that the cause of a free Cuba is front and center in Washington.”

This was in 2004, not long after the first millennials became eligible to vote. Back then, the “cause of a free Cuba,” as Bush described it, was clear to the Cuban American community: No lifting of the embargo. No normalizing of relations. No reconciliation.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising, then, that after stepping back onto the political stage so many years later, Bush’s position on Cuba has changed not at all. “We’re not a step closer to freedom in Cuba because of the steps the president is taking,” he said last week. Nor should it be of note that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a Cuban American who grew up in the Florida Republican establishment during the 2000s, would declare soon after announcing his own campaign that he planned to “reverse every single one of the decisions [the president] has made” with regard to Cuba.

Nothing has changed, except for one thing: the Cuban American community itself. The political ground has shifted radically in the past decade, something neither Bush nor Rubio seem to have noticed. ................(more)

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[riversedge]

1. And the GOP is out of step with so much of the Ameican public!! So, why

are they in power in Congress. ???

[DetlefK]

2. Gerrymandering and luck.

[GOLGO 13]

3. This younger group of Cubans don't concern themselves about rich Cubans that lost their

"fincas" or plantations. That old money Cubans that have been grumbling for 50 yrs are just going to have to accept the new reality.