As Krugman notes, Trump's desecration of the White House is not just sad, but it's a direct assault on republican (not Republican) aesthetics. Washington DC is supposed to represent classical virtues, but Trump's aesthetics run to Tin Pot Dictator. His obsession with gilded shit is an expression of the howling void in his soul that needs to be propped up by vanity design.
It all feels part of the complete collapse of American morality under Trump. He trades pardons for cash and all the other things we could list forever. It does not end with Trump though. We have the NBA gambling scandal, which was as predictable as the sunrise. We have the crushing of creativity under an assault of AI "slop".
Everything just feels worse and it starts from the man millions of Americans felt was worthy of the public trust, despite a lifetime of evidence to the contrary.
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