“I’ve seen movements like this before. I’ve seen ideas like this before. I am here to tell you – we cannot let them take over our country. I heard the promises of Fidel Castro. And I can never forget all those who grew up around me, who looked like me, who suffered and starved and died because they believed those empty promises. They swallowed the communist poison pill….The country I was born in is gone, totally destroyed. When I watch the news in Seattle and Chicago and Portland, when I see history being rewritten, when I hear the promises—I hear echoes of a former life I never wanted to hear again. I see shadows I thought I had outrun.” (Businessman Maximo Alvarez at RNC.)
“For my parents, the difficult decision to flee Communist Cuba came when the Castro regime abolished religious freedom…Daily, the radical left [in America] chisels away at the freedoms we cherish. They peddle dangerous ideologies, cower to global progressives and normalize socialism to dismantle our Constitution. Let me assure you, socialism doesn’t offer opportunity. Socialism deprives…Trump will keep America from straying down that path.” (Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez at RNC.)-- More...
