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Trump truly loves America.
No wonder the hateful left doesn't let a day go by without attacking him.
nypost.com
No wonder the hateful left doesn't let a day go by without attacking him.
Washington, DC’s newly refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool isn’t just reflecting the monuments at either end.
It’s mirroring President Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul.
For years, the reflecting pool was an unsightly green algae-plagued mess, due to an Obama-era effort to make it more environmentally friendly.
As the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening.
“This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson said at the time.
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Now the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument frame a lovely body of clear, clean water that doesn’t stink like a swamp.
And that’s just one part of Trump’s ongoing “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” program, which has been methodically cleaning and repairing ornamental fountains throughout DC, some of which had been inoperative for decades.
The formerly graffiti-covered and trash-filled Columbus Plaza fountain outside Union Station is now gleaming and functioning, as are fountains in Lafayette Park, Meridian Hill Park and more.
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Making Americans proud of America used to be something that united the entire political establishment.
Civic education, national pride and historical commemoration were bipartisan efforts through the 1976 Bicentennial and beyond.
But that’s in the past.
More recently, we’ve seen the removal or neglect of monuments, the decay of civic infrastructure and the replacement of traditionally uplifting neoclassical civic architecture with ugly modern buildings.
This wasn’t an accident: “Brutalism,” as a dominant architectural style, was a choice.
Gone were soaring columns, noble statuary depicting American heroes or abstract figures like Justice or Liberty, and welcoming spaces.
Instead we got modern architecture — which, as Tom Wolfe notes in his delightful book “From Bauhaus to Our House,” was quite literally designed to promote socialism.
...
By reversing this decay, Trump is doing several things at once.
First, he’s making it clear that decline is a choice.
Blue cities aren’t pits because of inescapable social forces; they’re pits because the people in charge of them want them that way.
If you want to fix blue-city chaos and decay, you can — and he does.
Second, he’s telling Americans that America is something to be proud of, by making its capital city something to be proud of.
Instead of removing the symbols of our national identity and heritage, or letting them decline into sad shells of themselves, he’s restoring them.
It’s mirroring President Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul.
For years, the reflecting pool was an unsightly green algae-plagued mess, due to an Obama-era effort to make it more environmentally friendly.
As the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening.
“This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson said at the time.
...
Now the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument frame a lovely body of clear, clean water that doesn’t stink like a swamp.
And that’s just one part of Trump’s ongoing “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” program, which has been methodically cleaning and repairing ornamental fountains throughout DC, some of which had been inoperative for decades.
The formerly graffiti-covered and trash-filled Columbus Plaza fountain outside Union Station is now gleaming and functioning, as are fountains in Lafayette Park, Meridian Hill Park and more.
...
Making Americans proud of America used to be something that united the entire political establishment.
Civic education, national pride and historical commemoration were bipartisan efforts through the 1976 Bicentennial and beyond.
But that’s in the past.
More recently, we’ve seen the removal or neglect of monuments, the decay of civic infrastructure and the replacement of traditionally uplifting neoclassical civic architecture with ugly modern buildings.
This wasn’t an accident: “Brutalism,” as a dominant architectural style, was a choice.
Gone were soaring columns, noble statuary depicting American heroes or abstract figures like Justice or Liberty, and welcoming spaces.
Instead we got modern architecture — which, as Tom Wolfe notes in his delightful book “From Bauhaus to Our House,” was quite literally designed to promote socialism.
...
By reversing this decay, Trump is doing several things at once.
First, he’s making it clear that decline is a choice.
Blue cities aren’t pits because of inescapable social forces; they’re pits because the people in charge of them want them that way.
If you want to fix blue-city chaos and decay, you can — and he does.
Second, he’s telling Americans that America is something to be proud of, by making its capital city something to be proud of.
Instead of removing the symbols of our national identity and heritage, or letting them decline into sad shells of themselves, he’s restoring them.
The deeper agenda behind Trump’s Reflecting Pool glow-up
The restoration of the iconic Washington, DC landmark mirrors Trump’s surprisingly sophisticated campaign to restore nothing less than America’s soul.
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