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DeSantis skewers critics who compare him to ‘dictator’: Florida is a ‘beachhead of freedom’

Updated: May 19, 2022 at 10:57 am EST  See Comments

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MIAMI, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-freedom Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose state has become a refuge for Americans fleeing draconian COVID lockdowns and mandates, slammed comparisons of himself to a totalitarian dictator as a “slap in the face” to Floridians who have lived under actual authoritarian regimes, such as Cuban immigrants.

When asked during a Tuesday press conference in Miami what he thought about people “equating” him to “an authoritarian dictator, like Castro or even Maduro,” DeSantis replied, “I think it’s a slap in the face to everybody in South Florida that has experience with these Marxist dictators in our hemisphere.”

“You have people who were driven out of the island of Cuba, …where it was so bad, the oppression there, that they would get on a raft and go 90 miles over shark-infested waters to be able to get to freedom,” DeSantis continued.

Miami-Dade County, the most heavily populated county in Florida, is dominated by first- and second-generation Cubans. As of 2017, about one

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