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To the editor : The disturbing image of falling debris as the East Wing of the White House is becoming a pile of rubble is a clear warning to heed ( “The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump’s ballroom,” Oct. 22). What’s the reason for this demolition? An over-sized, unnecessary, ostentatious ballroom.

It’s reminiscent of the myth of Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Americans are already struggling everyday to survive. This abhorrent display and the disregard by this administration’s out-of-touch, don’t-care, cavalier attitude has not-so-startling symbolism in the systematic drumbeat of the dismantling of our fading democracy.

This administration

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