“As the Americans return to their origin, to their primal urge, they are losing themselves. In a kind of atavistic dissolution, the originalists are rendering the constitution increasingly meaningless. The icons are desecrated. They paint over the granite of the reflecting pool. They have torn down the White House all on their own; the British didn’t need to burn it.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1