While demolishing Confederate statues was okay.
Democrats and Rino Republicans like The Wall Street Journal have suddenly become architectural critics and historic preservation advocates over the demolition of the East Wing of the White House.In 2020, most Democrats were fiery advocates of tearing down Confederate statues and memorials all over the country. They insisted that American heritage symbols were not worthy to stand because they got in the way of race-baiting DEI policies, CRT, and the globalist world order.
The massive list of destroyed or removed statues includes a statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol, a statue of J.E. B. Stuart in Richmond, Virginia, and various statues of Junipero Serra and Kit Carson, most notably in the state of California. The year 2020 saw over 100 Confederate monuments nationwide being removed or replaced.
Ironically, the same iconoclasts who celebrated the destruction of American heritage in the form of Confederate statues are expressing shock and outrage over the demolition of the East Wing.
Here’s the rub: American heritage and the Left are not compatible.
During the George Floyd riots in Philadelphia, the anarchy was so out of control that any statue of an old white man was targeted for toppling. Indeed, the large statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo which stood for years near City Hall was splattered with paint and then dressed in transgender clothing-a bra-while a noose was thrown around the statue’s neck. Although anarchists failed to topple it, then Mayor James Kenney orchestrated the removal of the statue to storage.
Symbols of American heritage come in many forms. There’s ‘heritage’ in physical objects like statues and architecture, then there’s the philosophical side to heritage that woke Democrats attacked when they waged war on the country with gender ideology, race card-DEI supremacy, and the obliteration of the (honorable) heritage of legal immigration.
Democrats at this time came to resemble the Walter Gropius school of architecture (Bauhaus), which advocated the complete elimination of design tradition in favor of blowing everything up and starting from scratch.
There’s Chuck Schumer calling the East Wing project “a vanity project,” while Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) labels it “heartbreaking.” Other Dems like Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon) commented that Trump was “tearing down a symbol of our Republic.”
Meanwhile, the daughter of a former First Lady who stole thousands of dollars worth of furniture from the White House at the conclusion of her husband’s presidency, Chelsea Clinton, wrote in a USA Today Op-Ed that the 47th president was taking a “wrecking ball to our heritage,” and has a “disregard for history.”
In sculpting a new career for herself as a politician and ‘important’ political writer, this long-haired Hilary spawn seems to have forgotten that it was her father, Bill, who turned the White House into a brothel.
Critics of the East Wing demolition and Trump’s addition of a ballroom say the corporate donors of the $300 million project like Apple, Comcast, Google, Lockhead Martin and Microsoft, will expect some sort of payback in exchange for their donations. --->READ MORE HERE
Critics of White House renovations also hated Jefferson’s colonnades and Truman’s balcony.
The latest sign of incipient authoritarianism is apparently that President Trump is building a ballroom. After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the lost quarters of the social secretary and the calligraphy office. Some urged Democrats to run in 2028 on a promise to raze Mr. Trump’s ballroom.
Take a breath, folks. There really is a case for a larger hall at the White House for holding big state dinners and other events, without having to pitch enormous tents on the South Lawn. Mr. Trump’s taste in decor runs toward garish, and there can be reasonable complaints about historical preservation, the architectural footprint, the lack of transparency on the private funding for this project, and the like.
But adding a ballroom to the White House isn’t destroying it, much less democracy, and controversy over such renovations is almost as old as the republic. The nonprofit White House Historical Association has an enlightening essay on the subject, written by the group’s president, Stewart McLaurin.
Thomas Jefferson’s addition of the east and west colonnades “faced immediate criticism for their cost and perceived extravagance,” he writes. Federalists in Congress said the columned walkways had a whiff of aristocracy unbefitting the building’s democratic simplicity.
Today it’s hard to imagine the White House without the North Portico, but when it was added under Andrew Jackson, it was called costly and ostentatious, Mr. McLaurin writes. Under Theodore Roosevelt, putting up the West Wing required removing glasshouses used for growing plants. One newspaper report said those alterations to the White House had “destroyed its historic value.” --->READ MORE HERE (or HERE)
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