The 2020 election is tearing retirement communities apart. So I was talking to a source we’ll call my “Mom” (not her real name), and she mentioned that the election-related tension within her North Carolina retirement community has reached a boiling point. Bipartisan dinner parties have become untenable; she was recently mocked for wearing a mask to Docktails. Trolling the Trumpkins in her midst, she and her Biden-supporting friends paid to have a Biden/Harris billboard installed along the nearest highway.
Hearing all this, I thought, “This seems like a great story… but do I really want to send a reporter to report on my Mom?” I don’t, and I’m glad I didn’t, because my old pal and colleague Alex French just published the exact same story in New York magazine, and it is a delight: “Not every Democrat in the Villages is content to go high when her Republican neighbors go low.”
