🏛️ No Kings: The Desecration of the People’s House
Trump’s Bulldozer Politics
Donald Trump’s I-don’t-give-a-fuck desecration of the White House isn’t just un-American — it’s anti-American. Democracies have committees, commissions, and preservation boards for a reason: to safeguard what belongs to all of us.
Dictators, however, skip the process. They bulldoze history because they believe they are history.
And yet, this may only be the third-most-outrageous thing he’s done since Monday.
When Outrage Becomes Background Noise
I almost wrote another “Trump is awful” column — one more liberal scream into the void — but then I stopped. What’s the point? The people who agree already agree. The people who don’t are probably live-streaming the demolition.
So instead, let’s talk about the other half of the story — the cheering section. The millions who grin and clap as democracy burns because they mistake cruelty for strength and chaos for change.
“Democracies don’t die with coups. They die with applause.”
The Real Desecration
Authoritarian demagogues rise all the time. That’s not the shock. The shock is that we’re letting him.
We built checks and balances, oversight boards, ethics rules — and yet here we are, watching a man rip apart a national landmark like it’s one of his failed casinos, while Congress holds the door open.
It’s not just marble being hauled away. It’s memory. Every relic stripped from the White House is one less piece of who we were. He’s not remodeling — he’s rewriting.
And the so-called patriots? The ones with flags on every truck and T-shirt?
They’re silent.
The People’s House has become the Emperor’s Palace.
The Cult of Apathy
The Founders feared not kings, but citizens too tired to stop them. We’re there.
Trump isn’t the disease — he’s the symptom. The infection is apathy: our willingness to scroll past outrage because it’s exhausting to care. He’s turned democracy into a reality show and convinced half the country that the destruction is the entertainment.
Maybe the ugliest part isn’t what’s happening to the building — it’s what’s happening to us.
When the Dust Settles
If there’s any justice left in the marble rubble, it’s this:
History outlasts the egos that try to erase it.
Someday, when the dust settles, future generations will ask what we did while the People’s House was being desecrated in our name.
I hope we’ll have a better answer than silence.
✊ Stay Loud. Stay Mindful. Stay Free.
If this hits a nerve, good. That means you’re still alive — still paying attention.
Forward this. Talk about it. Argue about it.
Democracy doesn’t need more outrage — it needs participation.
🖋️ Julie Bolejack, MBA
Writer, Mindful Activist, and Creator of Julie’s Journal
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