Fabiola Santiago: Miami’s radicalization is astonishing: Cuban Americans won’t get off the Trump train

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. President Trump knowi…

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