The Strange American State Fair
Bogdan Hofbauer
The U.S. capital has been outfitted of late with visual trappings that many associate with authoritarianism, such as banners depicting Donald Trump’s face and featuring his slogans. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the president erected his own Potemkin village: the Great American State Fair, where almost nothing is what it pretends to be. Stretching across a large swath of the National Mall, the fair has dozens of pavilions for 56 states and territories and numerous executive-
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