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Atlantic City has a warning for the nation: Donald Trump brings ruin and despair
Atlantic City has a warning for the nation: Donald Trump brings ruin and despair
Trump looted and corrupted New Jersey's gambling mecca and then got out of town. Does that sound familiar?
BOB HENNELLY
OCTOBER 30, 2020 10:00AM
With just days to go before the general election the nation is amidst another wave of a once-in-a-century pandemic, with a president who has refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power, even if his opponent gets more votes.
How did New Jersey my home state go from being the "Crossroads of the American Revolution" to being implicated in our republic's disease-ridden authoritarian dead-end?
Was our current national misery all presaged by Donald Trump's spectacular collapse in Atlantic City, which is so evident years later in the hulking ruin of the vacant Trump Plaza at the heart of the iconic boardwalk?
If Trump tries to subvert democracy, will New Jersey which Lincoln Steffens once described as "the traitor state" for its embrace of corporate trusts be implicated for the way the state's media and political elites indulged him?
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"Trump became the classic case of 'too big to fail,'" said Torricelli. "His empire was never built on a firm financial ground. He was always problematic and the state always feared his failure and that created leverage (for Trump). They allowed him to self-destruct. It would have been a better favor to Donald Trump and the state of New Jersey had the regulations been stricter, and he certainly should not have been permitted to develop excess capacity, which weakened every other casino in Atlantic City." ..............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/atlantic-city-has-a-warning-for-the-nation-donald-trump-brings-ruin-and-despair_partner/
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Atlantic City has a warning for the nation: Donald Trump brings ruin and despair (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2020
OP
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,721 posts)1. No shit Atlantic City? thx for the warning...nt
packman
(16,296 posts)2. You mean AC took a gamble with a known loser
Gee - ain't that ironic
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)3. And Republicans nominated the asshole for president
TWICE
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)4. Go down gamblin' with Donny Trump
n/t