Trump's Gilded Age and State-Sponsored Terror
This Halloween, we saw two very different pictures of America. At Mar-a-Lago, fabulously wealthy oligarchs and their government friends partied all night in flapper costumes like it’s 1928. But everywhere else in America, as the President’s favorites are lavished with flowing champagne, the rest of us are facing the consequences of their excessive recklessness.
Meanwhile, furloughed federal workers struggled to pay bills, Americans faced dramatically higher health insurance premiums, millions of children and families worried about going hungry with the loss of SNAP benefits. But the president bragged about a new marble White House bathroom and its fancy fixtures, and enjoyed his decadent Roaring Twenties costume party that featured “Gatsby-esque” fan dancers, some even perched inside oversized champagne glasses.
While he wined and dined, Trump delivered government sponsored terror on the streets of Chicago. Despite Governor J.B. Pritzker’s request that federal agents stand down on Halloween to let children just be children, Trump’s roving caravans of federal agents — one group helmed by top border official Greg Bovino — once again hunted down working people and attacked peaceful protestors in multiple city and suburban locations.
The New York Times reported:
“Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its North Shore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving S.U.V.s onto sidewalks and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents.”
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