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'We have fallen so low': Analyst laments 'dark moment' of Trump's 'ridiculous' state fair
Trump’s State Fair and the Politics of Cheap SpectacleThe SetupJon Lovett’s complaint is straightforward enough: Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, a 16-day event on the National Mall organized by the Trump-linked group Freedom 250, is drawing weak crowds, suffering from broken attractions, and looking like a wet cardboard version of national celebration. That is the surface fact pattern. The deeper story is who gets to turn a civic milestone into a personal machine, and who pays when the machine barely works.Who Holds PowerThe institutional power here is not with the disappointed…
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