Source: Common Dreams
by John Marks
“On a cold October morning, heavy equipment commenced destruction of the 123-year-old East Wing of the White House. In place of rooms where presidents rehearsed the words that would steady the nation and First Ladies wrote to grieving families, we are offered glass and spectacle, a ballroom scaled to diminish the original house, a monument to appetite where once stood service. This is not modernization. This is erasure. The destruction matters because process matters, and process was murdered alongside memory. The 1942 shell that sheltered the nation’s continuity in crisis, the offices where Rosalynn Carter pioneered the modern First Lady’s role, the theater where words found their gravity before facing the nation: all of it stripped away while the National Capital Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts were reduced to bystanders.” [editor’s note: Yet another “progressive” pundit who never reads history – SAT] (10/30/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-white-house-demolition