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Source: The Baffler

11/3/2020

Trumpania, U.S.A.: Making Federal Buildings Fascist Again

by Ed Simon

Trump's obsession with establishing neoclassical architecture as the default style for federal buildings echoes the delusional plan of Adolf Hitler to rebuild bombed Berlin in a monumental style purged of "decadent" modernism.