• tal@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants.

    Most of the hardline anti-Castro people in the US are, I think, Cuban-American. That’s typically the reason that they’re in the US.

    I don’t know if that’s a factor for Rubio in particular, but “person with Cuban background living in the US who is very unhappy with the Castro regime” is not an oddity.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      People who got ousted from wealth when the revolution happened harbouring generational grudges against the regime