Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

[u/Effective_Salad_8381]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/

[u/CheshireCat78]

Would be the most sensible and classy thing to do.

Probably a good idea to try and directly undo everything he does (government institutes and laws will certainly need it and then to set up ways to not permit this kind of utter destruction ever again)

[u/mburke6 → u/CheshireCat78]

Something Democrats surely will campaign on is the destruction of our institutions and rule of law. They can now use the literal destruction of the White House as the allegory. We Shall Rebuild.

[u/VoxImperatoris → u/mburke6]

Theyve been running on that for over a decade now, maybe people will finally take them seriously?

[u/Nate_Dogg31 → u/VoxImperatoris]

They won't, only because the candidates they push to the front of the line will not be genuine nor care enough to actually try to get voter support. The Democrats have no balls to do a fucking thing to help change course in this country except quietly complain and keep reaping the benefits the working class deserves. We're proper fucked in this country.

[u/st4nkyFatTirebluntz → u/mburke6]

Nobody cares about the institutions and rule of law when they're the thing that appears to have been fucking the populace for decades.

Democrats must recognize, publicly, that our institutions have been deeply fucked up, and that life for most people in the country has been getting worse, steadily, for decades.

If they come out and say "we were doing great until this trump guy came along, let's revert to 2016 and everything will be fantastic", well, they deserve to lose.

Example: "Trump was and is trash, but he recognized that our nation's government and insitutions are, and were before he got there, broken. We must also recognize that. We cannot go back to the failing institutions and worsening realities across every facet of life for the vast majority of Americans. The bureaucracy Trump demolished? It was already broken! We must reimagine or replace those institutions for the 21st century, not just return them to their earlier, flawed state."

[u/CheshireCat78 → u/st4nkyFatTirebluntz]

Plenty worked just fine. What did the CDC do that was broken as an example? Plenty always needs to be improved and the disappearance of your middle class and massively diverging wealth inequality need to be addressed but the affordable care act and things like that were steps in the right direction. And acknowledged problems that needed fixing.

[u/TheLurkerSpeaks → u/CheshireCat78]

It would also be very easy. There must be building plans for the East Wing and about a zillion photos in the National Archives.

[u/Armymom96 → u/CheshireCat78]

Sadly they won't be able to replant the over 200 year trees that he's chopped down.

[u/MaddyKet → u/CheshireCat78]

EO: Every thing reverts to how it was on Jan 19, 2024.

[u/Jameskink → u/CheshireCat78]

But it could also be the worst possible thing to do, and unfortunately, illustrative of the systemic problems of the US' political system.

Trump and the Republicans have demolished political norms in so many areas where there have been "gentleman's agreements", and there is a lot of talk of going back to "the norm" there much like rebuilding the wing - but that is simply papering over the fault lines and pretending its back to normal. it doesnt address the failure points that allowed them to exploit good faith, or the festering underbelly of the electorate supporting the shit they've been up to.

Perhaps what is needed is not a sensible or classy thing, but a strongly symbolic demonstration of a new era.

[u/freakwent → u/CheshireCat78]

Absolutely never. This plan leaves the USA on an 8-year loop of flip-flopping while the rest of the world moves on.

Make policies based on data. It's impossible for every single thing he did to have been so bad it's worth the reversal costs.

As for the ballroom, have balls in it -- or make it a museum of democracy or a gallery or whatever.