The Miami Herald's editorial board on Miami-bred seditious fascist gusano Enrique Tarrio, former head of the "Proud" Boys after yesterday's sentencing:
"Tarrio was a stain on this community long before Jan, 6, when he was parading around with a bullhorn and a bunch of other black-shirted men, his extremism on full display during gatherings at places like Versailles. As far back as 2018, we knew the ugliness that he harbored inside: He was in that infamous GOP mob pounding on the door of the Miami campaign headquarters for congressional candidate Donna Shalala when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was visiting, screaming expletives and yelling: 'Open up, it’s the Proud Boys in here.' [snip]
That Miami allowed someone like this — a two-bit criminal-turned-police-informant and then hatemonger — to exist in plain sight is both reprehensible and an embarrassment. Community leaders keep trying to cast Miami as the city of the future. How does that forward-looking ideal square with tolerating an Enrique Tarrio, who — until he was charged — was happy to stand with those who tried to subvert the peaceful transition of power for the first time in U.S. history? And where was the Miami GOP’s condemnation of Tarrio back when he was pounding on doors or shouting through a bullhorn? [snip]
The attempted overthrow of our government must be met with serious consequences, and that’s what happened Tuesday. Tarrio deserved every year he got.
Still, Miami let him flourish." (our emphasis)
Since the 1960s, Miami has been a hotbed of right-wing Cuban exile politics, helping to elect right-wing Republicans statewide ever since. The editorial mentions Versailles, the Cuban restaurant where the Malignant Loser was cheered and welcomed after his indictment in the stolen classified documents case. What you saw in that scene was a reflection of the community's right-wing extremism, a hateful cauldron that nurtured the cocky, violent street thug Enrique Tarrio, a felon who's probably seen as a hero by them.
