I hope everyone had a good Halloween. The president certainly did — he spent his weekend throwing a Great Gatsby–themed party at Mar-a-Lago.

Now, “The Great Gatsby,” for those who might’ve missed the symbolism in high-school English, is a story about excess, illusion and the moral decay behind wealth. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the rich: “They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness … and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

So the question is, was this Gatsby theme a deliberate metaphor, or just completely tone-deaf? Because while guests sipped champagne under chandeliers, millions of........

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