'Trump Is Using 'Classical Architecture' as 'A Dog Whistle for White Nationalists''
“'The classical architecture stuff is a dog whistle for white nationalists'...'Architecture in America has been associated with 'an American public, a democratic body, a democratic society,...but also an imperial society, a slave-owning society, a commercial society. Classical architecture covers all of this.'"
"Trump II has been all about returning, in as literal a way as possible, to the days of old. His administration has sought to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, again. His Health Department revived a long-defunct child vaccine task force. Trump wants to fund the government with tariffs, something that hasn’t been done at this scale since the 19th century. And Trump has been accused of seeking to whitewash the histories of slavery, discrimination, and racism by sanitizing historical accounts, much like some of his predecessors on the right."
"Greek Revival architecture was a favorite among southern plantation owners at the height of slavery, chosen explicitly for its links between civic power and human enslavement...'For Southern aristocracy, Greek and Roman architecture was the symbol and assurance that sound society could perfectly well combine ideals of liberty and the institution of slavery,' architectural historian Alan Gowans wrote in his 1964 book 'Images of American Living.'"
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