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Bizarre moment at Trump's state fair baffles Jen Psaki: 'Don't know what I watched there'
Trump’s Fair Wasn’t a Failure of Entertainment. It Was a Failure of Rule.A Fair Built for the CameraThe source is simple enough: Trump’s “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall drew sparse crowds, awkward programming, and, by week’s end, a stage that started to fall apart and nearly crushed performers. That is the material fact pattern. The political meaning is less decorative. This was not an event that failed to attract attention. It was a spectacle that could not manufacture legitimacy.Power Was on the Booking SheetThe people with power here were not the handful of spectators or…
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