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The spectacular implosion of Trump's big bash shows America is finished with this clown
Trump Turned a National Birthday Into a Stress TestA Pageant, Not a CelebrationThe source story is about a failed 250th-anniversary spectacle on the National Mall, with 20 states skipping the “Great American State Fair,” entertainers backing out, a thin crowd, and Trump inflating attendance anyway. That is the surface. The real story is simpler and uglier: a president used a civic anniversary as a loyalty test, and the public refused to play along.Who Actually Held PowerThe institutional power in this story sat with Trump, not with the crowd, not with the states that skipped, and not with the…
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