'I'm Mad at Trump': Even Trumpers Can't Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is

[tanyev]

2. I was struck by the reaction from the author's friend.

This is how the right has gotten as far as they have. Not enough people are paying close enough attention.

I went last Saturday with a friend of mine. He’s a former journalist, but made the wise financial move of declining to turn this into a lifelong career. He follows politics and current events. But not super closely, and definitely not in the kind of detail that we offer at TPM.

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By that point, we had had enough. A few days later, the friend I went with texted me, describing a “psychic shock” he got from the fair.

“Things are worse than I thought,” he wrote.