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Austin at Large: Carnival of the MAGAnimals


The last time I felt genuinely unsafe walking in the street – that is, the last time I ran from a stranger looking to cause me trouble – was some years ago in Port of Spain, right before Carnival. The locals in Trinidad and Tobago, which at the time had roughly as many people as did Travis County (1.3 million), knew they were in the grips of a major and unprecedented crime wave, one that dominated the headlines and halls of their Capitol – well, Parliament – as Greg Abbott would like people to talk about Austin now.
That year, TnT had more than 500 murders – that is, more than 10 times the current Austin homicide rate. Most involved the drug trade, a hazard of the nation's location next to Venezuela and Colombia, and were concentrated in the roughest neighborhoods. But people of all communities and ethnicities and stations of life were tense, and armed security was visible all around. And yet everyone still went ahead with the enormous nationwide street party that is Carnival in Trinidad, and a good time was had by all.

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