How the Democrats lost the Sunshine State
is a comic novel published in 2012 by two American authors, Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. The men wrote alternate chapters, making each more preposterous than the last. It starts with two suburban dads disagreeing over an offside call at a schoolgirls’ soccer game. Before long the dads have inadvertently hijacked a cruise ship full of nudists and overthrown the governments of more than one country.
Florida used to be a bellwether in presidential elections. Between 1928 and 2016 it voted for the winning candidate 21 times out of 23. In 2000 a mere 537 votes in Florida put George W. Bush in the White House. Barack Obama narrowly carried the state in 2012. But since then it has shifted sharply to the right. Trump is expected to win it handily in November .
During the pandemic, Florida had some of the loosest lockdown policies in the country, attracting many Americans from states with stricter rules. “The people that moved here weren’t just old, rich people from the north-east,” said Susan MacManus, a political analyst. “You saw a lot of young families with kids that didn’t want their kids in lockdown; and an influx of younger people who came here because jobs were open.
For a while they commuted 180km each way, bundling her children into the car at 4.30am, opening the café at 7am and then dropping the kids at school. “It was incredibly hard,” she said. So they moved to Glades County, where she and her husband can afford a house with a garden instead of a tiny apartment.
Arenas, in common with most of the Floridians I met, is wary of wokeness. Her brother is gay, which she doesn’t have a problem with, but when she hears of schools that tell boys they can be girls if they choose, she is “very against that”. She “100% agrees” with DeSantis on this. “He’s a straight shooter. He tells it like it is. We’ve never had that in my lifetime,” he said. Trump was a “strong commander-in-chief” who, unlike Joe Biden, won’t weaken the military with wokeness, he added. He takes an optimistic view of Trump’s fiscal conservatism. If America doesn’t re-elect him, “we’ll be in debt for the rest of our lives,” he said.
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