Breadlines and Ballrooms

A Jazz-Age masquerade for the ruling class, a can of lentils for everyone else, and a president who still “doesn’t give a shit.”

Good morning! The champagne still hasn’t stopped fizzing at Mar-a-Lago, though the rest of the country can’t afford bubbles in their tap water. On Halloween night, as D.C. police and National Guardsmen tried to corral chaos at the Navy Yard, Donald Trump and his entourage were busy reenacting The Great Gatsby in a ballroom lit like Versailles on fentany…