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Adiós, Donald Trump. I won’t forgive or forget what you did to my Miami | Opinion

Fabiola Santiago ,Miami Herald • November 8, 2020

Adiós, President Donald Trump.

You came to Miami and used our love of homelands lost, our wounds as exiles to manipulate our people into thinking you’d be a messiah for the Americas when you were only thinking about your interests all along. You and only you, first and foremost.

You divided family, neighbors, friends, colleagues.

I’ll never forget that the last time I saw a coworker with whom I shared good times and good work. His look of disgust, then avoidance of me. He didn’t like my columns exposing your racism and anti-immigrant agenda.

He died, and that’s how you left things between us.

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Despite your brief reign, Trumpism will remain alive and well in Miami-Dade, I know.

Here we often talk about how when the Castros’ evil dictatorship finally dies out in Cuba, the country will need not only physical, but also psychological and societal, reconstruction.

The same applies to us. We have a similar arduous task ahead in our cities and our nation. We need a soul makeover, we need political surgery to retake healthy debate on issues, not engage in fear-mongering and red-baiting.

You were the caudillo we fled, no savior of Cuba or Venezuela or Nicaragua, and you almost destroyed the best of the United States, its democratic checks and balances, in four endlessly long years.

Trump isn’t our savior from socialism, Florida Latinos. He’s the ‘caudillo’ we fled | Opinion
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article245433285.html

Unfortunately, Trumpism will linger the way Castroism does in Cuba and Chavismo in Venezuela. That’s the legacy of dictatorships, authoritarianism and populism.

For now, all we can do is celebrate that your re-election campaign is dead, grateful for the good sense of other battleground states in the nation.

“I’d been waiting to fly my flag until it had the correct meaning again!” texted my friend Ileana Oroza, a retired Cuban-American journalist and educator, with a photograph of Old Glory flying in the wind from her balcony in Miami Beach.

I choked up when she sent it, this symbol of democracy and decency prevailing in our country.

Adiós, Donald Trump. Good riddance to your brief, dishonest and hateful reign.

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