There are so few shibboleths left in American life, and yet Donald Trump keeps finding more of them to demolish. In the case of the East Wing of the White House, literal demolition began on Monday as the President, without any warning, deployed a wrecking crew to tear down part of the protected landmark. Onlookers wondered whether the country has now entered the Twilight Zone.

The news of the White House desecration was first reported via Cat Zakrzewski, a Washington Post correspondent who happened to be on deck yesterday as the designated White House pool reporter.

“Part of the East Wing of the White House is being torn down today”, she wrote in one of the most jaw-dropping, pinch-me-it-can’t-be-true dispatches in US political history. “Some reporters have spotted the construction

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