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.

@augieray On point. The book is about moral rot, cruelty, hubris, greed, envy, and the obsessive selfish accumulation of wealth and things by the morally bankrupt and corrupt, adultery, a crime, a murder, and the funeral of a "star" mourned by almost no one.

Sounds about right.

The death of irony also unmourned.