As a fairly recent refugee from DeSantistan, I agree with the delegate who asserted that the Dems are sorely in need of better candidates. Putting Charlie Crist, a tired old party-switching candidate up against DeSantis was simply a surrender. Having spent 12 years in Florida, my wife and I remain aghast at the rapid conversion of seemin…
As a fairly recent refugee from DeSantistan, I agree with the delegate who asserted that the Dems are sorely in need of better candidates. Putting Charlie Crist, a tired old party-switching candidate up against DeSantis was simply a surrender. Having spent 12 years in Florida, my wife and I remain aghast at the rapid conversion of seemingly decent folks who simply wanted to enjoy warm sun and low prices into rabid Trump-ers. I have a theory that a lot of those Trumpophiles were once union Democrats before they took their pensions and moved from the north and the upper Midwest to FL. Then, as unions got crushed and jobs went overseas, they saw that their kids up north were having crappy lives, and Ma and Pa suggested moving to Florida as a cure. Warmer temperatures, cheaper housing, but the same life problems followed them to the Sunshine State, where they are confronted with low wages, dreary service jobs, poor health services and, now, skyrocketing insurance rates--both home and auto--as everyone sweats out the summer waiting for the Cat 5 storm. (And DeSantis, like Scott before him, doesn't allow any mention of climate change in official communications.) We saw a lot of broken lives become angry people ripe for the picking by Trump and DeSantis. A small glimmer of hope: I see that DeSantis' hand-picked school board candidates all lost in two sizable counties. Maybe the tide will turn before the tides rise up and inundate the state.
As a fairly recent refugee from DeSantistan, I agree with the delegate who asserted that the Dems are sorely in need of better candidates. Putting Charlie Crist, a tired old party-switching candidate up against DeSantis was simply a surrender. Having spent 12 years in Florida, my wife and I remain aghast at the rapid conversion of seemingly decent folks who simply wanted to enjoy warm sun and low prices into rabid Trump-ers. I have a theory that a lot of those Trumpophiles were once union Democrats before they took their pensions and moved from the north and the upper Midwest to FL. Then, as unions got crushed and jobs went overseas, they saw that their kids up north were having crappy lives, and Ma and Pa suggested moving to Florida as a cure. Warmer temperatures, cheaper housing, but the same life problems followed them to the Sunshine State, where they are confronted with low wages, dreary service jobs, poor health services and, now, skyrocketing insurance rates--both home and auto--as everyone sweats out the summer waiting for the Cat 5 storm. (And DeSantis, like Scott before him, doesn't allow any mention of climate change in official communications.) We saw a lot of broken lives become angry people ripe for the picking by Trump and DeSantis. A small glimmer of hope: I see that DeSantis' hand-picked school board candidates all lost in two sizable counties. Maybe the tide will turn before the tides rise up and inundate the state.