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Trump's Gilded Age and State-Sponsored Terror

Trump partied like its 1928, but Chicago remained on high alert after roving caravans of federal agents used chemical agents, pummeled people and threatened to shoot bystanders.

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Jennifer Schulze
Nov 08, 2025
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Illustration by Riley Levine

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 consequen…

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