We Will Tear It Down!

 

JV Last asks the right questions and comes to the right conclusions about destroying the East Wing of the White House to make way for the Donald J. Trump Bribe and Grift Ballroom ($$):

... Is a president really allowed to do this?

This is a serious question: Is the president the owner of the White House? Can he do literally anything he wants to it? Could he knock down the whole thing and replace it with a ten-story Brutalist cube?

I guess so.

The good news is this means that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.  [snip]

Undoing the authoritarian project is not a “distraction.” It is the single most important job of the next Democratic administration.

Real talk: “Undoing the authoritarian project” will be incredibly hard when it comes to salvaging the Department of Justice, dissolving ICE, reallocating DHS functions to more professionalized forces, making the District of Columbia a state (in order to safeguard the rights of its citizens), and reforming the Supreme Court.

The authoritarians are counting on this being difficult. They believe that the ratchet turns only one way. That they can do what they will and even in the unlikely event they are turned out of office this time, they can come storming back to finish the job.

It is maximally important to demonstrate—both to the authoritarians and those who oppose them—that the ratchet can go in reverse. That authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries...

This also goes for the "arch" that the Malignant Fascist is planning to put at one end of the Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, meant to mimic L'Arc de Triomphe, and every single fascistic element the MF has introduced into our polity.  Let it start with the physical embodiments, but let it continue until the de-Nazification has been completed and America, though stained forever and weakened, will never have to worry about fascism inside its borders again.

And, whenever an oligarch or corporation has paid to construct one of the MF's monuments to himself, send them the bill for demolition and restoration! 

(Photo:  the MF and his $200  $250  $300 million gilded ballroom bribe and grift center / screenshot via ABC News)