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A Night at the Garden

WrestleMania and Trump's "Spectacle of Excess"

John Ganz
Oct 29, 2024
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America’s political commentators have been looking for an appropriate (or, at least, appropriately titillating) precedent for Trump’s Madison Square Garden spectacle. Why now? Why Madison Square Garden, right in the heart of a non-competitive city in a non-competitive state? The natural comparison …

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