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WEEKEND READER: Fear And Loathing In Mar-a-Lago

Aug 22, 2021 David Sirota
A dispatch from Donald Trump’s Florida as it is being overrun with radicals and grifters.
WEEKEND READER: Fear And Loathing In Mar-a-Lago
A U.S. Coast Guard boat passes Mar-a-Lago (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Florida has long been a refuge for drug lords, Mafiosi, and stereotypical Florida Men, but ever since Donald Trump made his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach his base of operations, the state has become a mecca for ever more surreal right-wing shenanigans, from Roger Stone partying with frat boys to GOP stalwarts wearing baseball hats declaring, “DeSantis 2024: Make America Florida.” Among the stories in this week’s Weekend Reader is Vanity Fair correspondent Joe Hagan’s venture into the Sunshine State’s heart of darkness.

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