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Selling hate, vulgarity and violence: How Trump and MAGA overran a quaint Midwest festival

Selling hate, vulgarity and violence: How Trump and MAGA overran a quaint Midwest festival

MANSFIELD, Ind. — The name Covered Bridge Festival evokes images of artisans selling their wares under the country sun and live music delighting passersby, all while celebrating quaint structures built more than a century ago to protect the wooden crossing from the weather.

The unsuspecting, however, encounter something much different at this west-central Indiana town, one of several sites for the decades-old event in Parke County.

MAGA....