Why every vestige of Trump must be torn down (Paul Waldman, writing for Aaron Rupar's Public Notice)

[highplainsdem]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-renaming-buildings-for-himself

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The symbolism matters; every American should see video and photographs of Trump’s legacy being wiped clean as a vivid embodiment of a new beginning for the government and the nation. The images of Trump’s erasure should live on for years, reproduced and memeified, until they become as familiar as Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon or the sailor kissing the nurse on V-J Day in Times Square. In the end, the visual memory of Trumpism should have two parts: His repulsive desecration of our nation’s capital, leading to the restorative and redemptive eradication of every trace of him.

When it happens, Republicans will object (and you can only imagine the meltdown Trump himself will have on Truth Social). The answer Democrats give to them should be simple: Too bad. We have the power now. A strong message must be sent to the country and future generations that Trump will not be honored or celebrated.

After that project is done, Trump will live out his remaining days the way he started, as a two-bit grifter on an endless quest for marks, admired only by the saddest among us. He’ll keep putting his name on crappy goods he’ll hawk to gullible suckers on TV, just as he has for decades. The truly devoted will open their wallets to buy lifetime supplies of Trump Bronzer for Men, Trump Blast Energy Drink, and Trump Adult Diapers.

But his name should not adorn anything official, anything that represents our country and its government. Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations to demonstrate that sustaining a democracy against the corrupt and the malevolent requires vigilance and determination. That cleansing purge must be thorough and complete, and to do it right, we should start planning now.

[markodochartaigh]

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"Trump will live forever, but only as a cautionary tale, one we tell successive generations".

"That cleansing purge must be thorough and completehat cleansing purge must be thorough and complete".

To me these points seem to contradict each other. The majority of the US either supports what Trump and maga are, or were blissfully ignorant about what Trump and maga are, and the danger that they present, until Trump and maga were thrown in their face.
And the majority of the people who managed to ignore what maga is will go back to pretending that the danger doesn't exist. And the next time we will absolutely certainly get an authoritarian Strong Leader who is far more polished and intelligent than the buffoonish and ignorant Trump.