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How politics tore apart a retirement community

How politics tore apart a retirement community
At Rossmoor, ageing Democrats are flocking in and now outnumber Republican residents by 2-1.
The Wall Street Journal
By Jim Carlton with photography by Brian L. Frank for the Wall Street JournalAs a place to retire, it doesn’t get much more idyllic than Rossmoor, a hillside gated community in Walnut Creek, California, boasting 27 holes of golf, eight tennis courts and clubs spanning bunco to bocce.Yet even here, political rancour has erupted. Demonstrations, duelling columns in the weekly Rossmoor News and a brawl on a pickleball court following former President Donald Trump’s near assassination have roiled the enclave of 10,000 seniors....

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