Visiting my brother at The Villages, the massive retirement community increasingly dominating central Florida. Its well known as a community heavily supportive of Donald Trump…..he included a stop here as part of his perpetual campaign for a second term and this morning’s issue of the Villages Sun, the newspaper distributed throughout the complex daily, gives you a clear understanding of why.
This is the front page of today’s Sun and on a day with articles of impeachment just delivered to the Senate by House managers, you would think that this issue would be one of those “keepers”— a document your heirs might treasure as a marker of a major moment in our nation’s history…..the start of only the third impeachment in the history of our country.
Well, it’s a keeper but not for reasons you might expect.
On Friday, January 17, 2020, the front page of the Village Sun does cover the impeachment….if you look very carefully at that green box up there in the left corner:
Yep….that’s the coverage….Page A 13.
Not far from this story:
The article begins by noting that the Govt. Accounting office has ruled that The Office of Management and Budget (run by the infamous Mick Mulvaney) broke the law by holding up military aid to Ukraine, stating the President did not have the power to hold it up.
Next paragraph: The OMB responded that the hold was appropriate and necessary.
Villages Sun headline in big type: OMB Takes Issue With Watchdog’s Ukraine Report
One thing you need to understand about the Villages newspaper. It is owned by the Villages developer. And frankly that’s all you need to know about the Villages newspaper. It is a publication relentlessly focused on two things….happy news and selling more homes in the Villages. (2010 population 28,000….estimated today….over 130,000. It’s a lifestyle, it’s retirement, it is a blissful community of innocence, well shielded from the winds of reality. And most of its residents are just fine with that. All is well in Disneyland for White People With Gates.