They grew up under dictators. They're worried about America.

As a child in Cuba, Mike Fernandez watched as his teachers were replaced with government instructors, books vanished from classroom shelves and ultimately, Communist Party officials took over his dad's tiny sandwich stand.

Now the self-made billionaire and longtime Republican campaign donor watches uncomfortably from South Florida as President Donald Trump takes many of the same steps he saw under Fidel Castro.

Like many people who fled to the United States from authoritarian regimes, Fernandez says the United States appears to be at a tipping point, with Trump centralizing power to silence dissent and punish people he's declared as enemies, while bullying private businesses to fall in line.

"There's something wrong, and we all know it," Fernandez told USA TODAY. "Many people are hoping it's going to go away on its own, and it's not going to go away on its own."

The billionaire émigré added: "I'm scared of how fast we're moving."


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/28/trump-makes-immigrants-nervous-authoritarian-dictator/86064657007/

Just read the whole article before commenting on ohe guy's party donations, OK?