While “trick or treat” is supposed to only be a formality, some take it further with actual tricks.
You’re right, liberalism, if it ever was anything else before, is now the ultimate trick or treat with emphasis on the TRICK.
Soaping windows was the minimum effort, but dumping over outhouses was a favorite when I was a kid.
Some clever old timers would move their outhouse forward a couple feet before it got dark, fun, fun, for everyone.
Occasionally and old timer would hide in his outhouse with a shotgun, but we always seemed to know which one would do that, so they got to spend a while trapped in the outhouse, when it was dumped over on the door.
As my group got a little older we made it our mission to go around and reset all the outhouses, seemed a lot more fullfilling.