This is an opinion column.

From Lafayette Park, north of the White House, you can’t see what’s happening to the East Wing. Roads are closed and tall plywood walls block the view. But you can hear it — jackhammers pounding, tractor engines groaning, the thunderous echoes of bricks and mortar being poured into the beds of dump trucks.

There’s a demolition happening, and you might think the Trump Administration doesn’t want anyone to see, but we in the South know better. What’s happening on the other side of that barricade — that’s Southern-style FU politics.

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This is the United States of Alabama, and now the rest of the country is waking up to what that means. FU politics are old Alabama politics.

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