My comment to him was not to you.
Although overall it's pretty classic in that it's so typical in that if the typical membership labels are not correctly applied, Reich Wingers go off and start ramroding with wrong assumptions even though officially you're on the same side, only they don't know it, so you get to deal with the labeling that those not of the Mark of the Beast typically get.
Guy got you down as a supporter of everything from Byrd to Smollett.
"Even today, those who fled Cuba and came here, see that the Democrats wanted the same things as Castro. That's why there is a huge number of Cuban refugees and their descendants who are Republican."
Nope. Try Bay of Pigs.
JFK - shocker - left them hanging, so for some curious reason Cubans took that as a betrayal and thus had a bad taste in their mouth lingering to this day when it came to Democrats. Add to that that Republicans kept telling them how they were the ones supporting and funding their fast track citizenship plus all the free benefits in rent, schooling, businesses grants, housing purchases, and whatever freebies Cubans were eligible for until Obama ended the program in 2017, so there's that.
Obviously that's where Republicans got the notion that that's what Democrats attempt to do with immigrants because that's exactly what Republicans had been doing with Cubans as well as people from South Korea and the USSR & Iron Curtain countries back in the day, as well as Iran for a time right after the revolution. All they had to do was get here, and in half a decade they were living the middle class life with their own house, business, and college degrees, all for free thanks to the GOP. At least that's how the Republicans sold it to them. Of course this was a government program and not a party one, but still, a con is a con...
As Democrats were the ones who lead the fight against communism abroad and domestically, you need to reread your history again. Sure, Ronnie the Reagan rode the Cold War bronco like that little pony was all his, but he had been doing so since his former Democrat days, so...