As Chapo Trap House co-host Felix Biederman quipped in an interview last summer, Donald Trump’s antiquated vision of Chicago is straight from urban vigilante movies of the early 70s—the Dirty Harry and Death Wish films of the world, in which the streets are ruled by criminals (“all gangs in leather vests and shit,” as Biederman put it) while bourgeois white people live in fear.
The lack of punctuation seems intentional, as if the moviemakers aren’t posing a question so much as informing the audience of a frightening inevitability.
