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"People are going to get slaughtered financially. It's the most irresponsible thing to be betting on our democracy," she said.

“There are some people who feel more comfortable with a 15-year-old girl stripped and slaughtered,” Holzman told the audience of journalists, “than one who is alive and speaking her own mind.”

It was a fascist spectacle — and included a speaker who said the "enemies" of the Trump movement need to be “slaughtered.”

No longer delivered "on the hoof" to cities, cattle were now slaughtered in Chicago and sent East as tinned meat or, after the 1870s, in refrigerated railcars.

“It’s 16 weeks of not knowing whether you live or die by the sort of the episode. You could have a week of wonderful reviews, and then you are slaughtered the next,” she says.