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'Not much to see': Empty stalls and a cow named 'Melania' greet visitors at Trump's fair
Trump’s Fair, and the Familiar Politics of Making Spectacle Out of FailureA Stage Built on PowerThe source event is straightforward: Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall with delays, power failures, construction debris, broken concessions, and a Ferris wheel that worked only intermittently because of a faulty generator. Several states, mostly run by Democratic governors, refused to participate because the exhibition costs were prohibitive. What was sold as patriotic pageantry arrived instead as a badly managed display of institutional incompetence.Power Writes…
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