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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,843 posts) Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:06 PM Jul 2020

'It's a constant barrage of hate': how Trump sparks heated clashes in Florida's retirement resort

It promotes itself as “Florida’s friendliest hometown”, a retirement playground where seniors while away their golden years in a carefree world of golf and swimming, fine dining, drinking, and nightly line dances in the village square.

But one reckless and controversial retweet from Donald Trump, featuring some ugly racism from a resident in a golf cart, and The Villages’ carefully crafted image as a peaceful utopia for retirees began to dissipate. As elderly white voters, one of Trump’s key voting blocs in 2016, show signs of abandoning the erratic president, some are even wondering if the door has been opened for Democrats here, an area that until now has been unashamedly “Trump country”.

“He’s definitely turning off some of the older voters in The Villages,” said Chris Stanley, president of the Democratic Club in the 32-square mile retirement community of 125,000, and a resident herself for almost six years.

“They’re concerned about his plans for Medicare and social security of course, but they also didn’t allow their children to behave like this, they don’t allow their grandchildren to behave like this, and they’re very much turned off by it.

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'It's a constant barrage of hate': how Trump sparks heated clashes in Florida's retirement resort (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP

I hope the cult members get a healthy dosage of the hoax dalton99a Jul 2020 #1

Notice which direction the "hate" is coming from. n/t Laelth Jul 2020 #2

Absolutely. I know I harp on this, but it is the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #3

dalton99a

(81,426 posts)

1. I hope the cult members get a healthy dosage of the hoax

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:11 PM

Jul 2020

Golf carts bearing signs for the Democratic party or Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive opponent in November, have been vandalised, Stanley says. Pre-pandemic gatherings of Democrats were assailed by residents hurling insults; pro-Democratic golf cart rallies have received social media threats of participants being pelted with rotten tomatoes or roofing nails left on trailways. And there are also tales of villagers leaving bags of dog excrement in the carts of those with differing political views.

“It’s very hostile,” Stanley says. “Even on Facebook, you’re a libtard, you’re a demon-rat. It’s a constant barrage of hate.”

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

2. Notice which direction the "hate" is coming from. n/t

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 12:22 PM

Jul 2020

-Laelth

Midnight Writer

(21,737 posts)

3. Absolutely. I know I harp on this, but it is the difference between Democrats and Republicans.