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Ex-RNC chair torches Doug Burgum's Reflecting Pool story: 'We know that did not happen'
When Power Breaks Something, It Blames the Nearest CivilianThe Actors With Real PowerDoug Burgum is not a bystander in this story. He is the U.S. Interior Secretary, defending a Trump administration project that spent $14 million to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a visual stunt and then failed in public. That is institutional power: the ability to spend the money, authorize the scheme, and then try to redefine the failure after the fact.The people with no comparable power are the ones being blamed. “D.C. vandals” is not an explanation. It is a diversionary label, deployed to…
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