As most of America’s feck-free elected Democrats furrow their brows in concern, its citizens are reacting with near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s latest display of his guiding ethos, best summed up as “Oh, yeah? Whaddaya gonna do about it?”
As I have pointed out frequently in the past few days, even people who don’t pay attention to politics think Trump’s destruction of the historic East Wing is horrendous, and polls are starting to show it. Fewer than 25% of respondents to a YouGov poll approved of the demolition; not even a majority of Republicans approve.
It didn’t take long for the nation’s meme industry to get involved. The image above has been making the social media rounds for a couple of days now. There’s also a spreading move on liberal sites to refer to Trump’s sloppily planned vanity project the Epstein Ballroom, and people with actual knowledge of building construction are crying foul about the bloated figures the White House has floated about the size and cost of the project.
Even total morons should be able to make a winning issue of this. Sadly, this doesn’t apply to quivering, cowardly total morons like most Democrats in elective office (Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Raskin are notable exceptions), so they’re pretending they’re not home while opportunity keeps on knocking.