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Wannabe Roman Emperor holds blood-soaked spectacle — and America is paying the price
REUTERS/Yves HermanThe State as a Vanity PlatformPower, Not PageantryThe source material describes a White House turned into a personal stage set: a cage fight on the South Lawn, gold decoration inside the Oval Office, Trump-branded monuments, and a proposed arch designed to dominate the capital’s sightlines. The point is not aesthetics. It is control. The person making these decisions is the president, backed by the machinery of federal property, federal contracts, and federal symbolism.That is the central fact the pageantry tries to obscure. This is not a chaotic burst of taste. It is…
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