It feels a little on the nose for Trump to have a Great Gatsby Halloween party as the government shutdown drags into a second month, workers go without pay, and food assistance is cut off for the needy. Then again, the irony will be lost on most Republicans who think Gatsby is about fun parties and not the rot at the heart of American wealth.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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