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It Keeps Getting Worse—and No One Is Safe

It Keeps Getting Worse—and No One Is Safe

Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined “enemies within.” Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.

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by Alex Shephard

Two migrants deported from the U.S. hold up a sign in the window of the Decapolis Hotel where they were temporarily staying in Panama City in mid-February. | ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP/Getty Images

There is no way to overstate what is happening in America. A sinister alliance between a demagogue, the world’s richest man, and right-wing activists …

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