I so appreciated reading Krish O’Mara Vignarajah’s op-ed from Oct. 29, “What America loses with the demolition of the White House’s East Wing.” In detailed fashion, she provided me with so much history that took place in the East Wing, where first ladies, including the indomitable Eleanor Roosevelt, helped create a “sanctuary of women’s history, a place where generations of women had quietly, persistently and profoundly changed the world.” This crude and crass demolition of all that history by President Donald Trump epitomizes his attempt to cover up female accomplishments. Of course, our narcissistic inhabitant of the White House failed to seek advice about building the billionaires’ ballroom.
The author closed with this warning: that with the East Wing’s destruction, we “lose a piece of who we aspire to be.” In Trump world, violence is part of his operating tactics. The attack on immigrants by masked, armed brutes is symptomatic of a dictatorship. Who would have thought that an acquiescent military would violate their oaths to the Constitution by assassinating alleged but unproven “narco-terrorists”? Trump is the judge and the jury, and members of the military are the executioners. Our flawed democracy, in which Wyoming has two senators, the same as California, may be something we quaintly remember once the imperial presidency is accepted by the Republican House and Senate members and ratified by the Supreme Court.
— Max Obuszewski, Baltimore
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