This piece was originally published on October 4, 2023. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again. ________________________________________________________________________ “Indeed, we are all implicated in Iowa.” –Heather Anne Swanson, “The Banality of the Anthropocene” Crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa by car is an almost effortless glide, […]
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Middle Class War: A Visit to Staten Island’s Autonomous Zone
This piece was originally published on December 20, 2020. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again _____________________________________________________________ Transmission rates are on the rise again in New York City. Hospital beds are filling, the temperature is dropping, and most have accepted a renewed lockdown to be a foregone […]
“The Last Stand of Freedom in America”
This piece was originally published in December 9, 2020. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again _______________________________________________________________________________ “How many of you have an easy life?” the speaker asked the audience. To his dismay a handful of people raised their hands. “Well, okay, I guess some of you […]
Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal
This piece was originally published on November 29, 2020. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again ___________________________________________________ On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured […]
The Show Must Go On
This piece was originally published on September 30, 2020. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again ____________________________________________________________ “It’s so great that we are all together in one place,” a middle-aged white woman gushed, almost directly in my ear. “Trump was sent by God!” I had other theories, […]
DOWNFALL! Trump in the Bunker
This piece originally ran on June 3, 2020. We are republishing various Trump-related articles, as explained in Why We’re Publishing Some Trump Stuff Again _________________________________________________ The image of the clot Trump being whisked by Secret Service agents into the White House underground bunker last Friday night (May 29th) to avoid the protests is a satirist’s […]