If you wish to tear down a democracy, you need to tear down its symbols. Until last Thursday, the White House was a beautiful and modest and symmetric symbol of our nation.
Its sense of balance and lack of ostentation spoke to an ideal of the United States of America. It represented a government which understood that it belonged to the American people, and that in a democracy, a government exists to serve the will of its citizenry.
Now, of course, that beautiful ideal has been demolished by an idiot child busily building his oversized idiot ballroom. It is a structure that does serve its stated purpose, since the president never holds events for 999 foreign dignitaries.
Such an elephantine monstrosity is really more suitable for gathering your loyal supporters to hold your very own Reichsparteitag, like the ones a certain other country used to convene in Nuremberg. I wonder how long it will take before he starts soliciting private donations to commission brown shirts and ties for the attendees.