Miami's radicalization is astonishing: Cuban Americans won't get off the Trump train Opinion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Cuban Americans in Miami are proving Donald Trump right on one issue.

He could, as the Republican presidential front-runner famously boasted in 2016 Iowa, stand in the middle of New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody,” and he wouldn’t lose voters.

In Miami, make that famous corridor Calle Ocho, and make the target of Trump’s narcissistic wrath democracy itself.

The ex-president’s assault on democracy, apparently, means nothing to the majority of Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade, a new poll confirms. They’re as blind as their forebears who supported Fidel Castro in 1959.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/miami-radicalization-astonishing-cuban-americans-121641965.html

[reymega life]

1. BECAUSE maybe there communists/fascist enablers?

they hate social programs and things that provide for poor people?

[LonePirate]

2. Except they (their ancestors) fled Cuba because of a governing style much like current Republicans

TFG is more similar to Fidel Castro than he is to Ronald Reagan. Their support of him surely can't be due to an opposition to social welfare programs.

If you told me they supported him because they thought he would overthrow the current Cuban government, I could believe that. If that is not the case, then I have no idea why they support him as it makes absolutely no logical sense to me.

[Mopar151]

5. Some were Battista supporters.

Castro was a savior compared to the elaborately corrupt Battista. The Miami Cubans want the US to kill all the communists, and to give them back the keys to the casinos, sugar mills, and brothels. Opening Cuba for trade is betrayal to these mossbacks.

[scarletlib]

8. Sad to say many of the Cubans exiles in the first wave benefited from Batista's regime.

They weren’t freedom loving Cubans fleeing Communist suppression so much as they were the wealthy, upper classes pissed off they were losing their privilege and positions in a corrupt dictatorial regime.

[scarletlib]

9. Yes he was to the poor and downtrodden.

If the U.S. government hadn’t reacted so harshly to him, the Cuban nation under Fidel may have taken a different track. We literally drove him into Russian arms with our blockade and other hostile actions.

We will never know.

[PortTack]

3. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[bahboo]

4. appeal of the strongman perhaps....

who the hell knows...

[SunSeeker]

7. Trump ended the U.S. policy allowing Cubans who make it to dry land in the U.S. to stay.

And now we are turning back boats of Cuban refugees because of that. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nearly-100-cuban-migrants-returned-homeland-rcna53649

But instead of blaming Trump, these idiots blame Biden.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. I don't mean to be mean, but it's like they go from one dictator to the next.

Maybe this has something to do with Stockholm syndrome? It's what they were raised to believe in.

And, a word of caution here: Latin Americans come from countries where 1% of the population owns 90% of the resources. The Republican pipe dream is what they're accustom to. You have to instill the belief in those who come from nothing, that it can be different in the USA. They don't have to accept the patron system. They have options here.

[Timeflyer]

12. Good points--

and maybe Catholicism primes them for obedience to a higher power, so they don't have to take full responsibility for themselves. Not to offend, but, "It is verily a great thing to live in obedience, to be under authority, and not to be at our own disposal. Far safer is it to live in submission." Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. I don't disagree with you on the Christian angle.

I have spent far too much of my life shedding all the self-constraint and self-censorship that I was taught in that environment. I know there is some good in the Christian beliefs, but I just haven't seen much evidence of that good since I moved up to the US more than forty years ago.

[scarletlib]

14. Good point all. However the first wave Cuban exiles supported Batista & most in top echelons of

Cuban society. They wanted their country back because they wanted to rule it and have the top spots.

[Chainfire]

11. They are still voting against John F. Kennedy.

[erpowers]

15. They Never Supported Democracy

The Cubans supporting Trump likely never supported Democracy. They are likely the same people who supported Fulgencio Bastista, or had family members who supported Bastista.