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Watching Rep. Eric Swalwell demand that Democratic presidential hopefuls pledge to take a wrecking ball to President Trump’s White House ballroom felt less like politics and more like performance art gone sour. Swalwell’s social media edict — ordering would-be 2028 nominees to promise demolition on “DAY ONE” — wasn’t a policy proposal, it was a spectacle designed to rile up the bubble, and the American people deserve better than theatrical vandalism from their leaders.
Let’s be clear about what’s actually happening at the White House: the East Wing has been razed to make room for a formal ballroom, a massive undertaking that critics have called controversial but that the administration says will be privately funded and used for state functions that the residence currently cannot accommodate. This is not some taxpayer-funded vanity project in the style of the left’s pet spending sprees; it’s an effort to restore functionality to the people’s house and host American diplomacy with dignity.
On Fox’s Outnumbered, Kayleigh McEnany and the panel reacted with the kind of disbelief every decent American felt when Swalwell suggested bulldozing presidential property as a first act of a future administration. That reaction isn’t about personality — it’s about principles: property destruction as a political promise crosses a line from opposition into raw, performative authoritarianism, and conservatives aren’t going to shrug and accept it.
Swalwell’s call is emblematic of a larger left-wing temper tantrum: when you can’t win on ideas, you threaten to erase them. Democrats are trying to make cultural destruction into a selling point, pretending that top-down demolition of the president’s work is somehow noble or restorative, even when that work is being paid for privately and solves legitimate logistical problems for the White House. Americans who work for a living see through that cynicism.
Politically, this moment should be a wake-up call for voters tired of the spectacle and starving for substance. Swalwell’s litmus-test demands reveal a party willing to build platforms around anger, not governance — and a party that would prioritize theatrical revenge over fixing real problems like the border, inflation, and national security. Republican leaders and conservative media should treat this episode as proof that the left’s playbook is to attack and erase, not to compete.
Every American who loves this country ought to recoil at the idea of political leaders pledging to destroy the nation’s institutions for a headline. We should celebrate leadership that restores function, defends heritage without bowing to performative outrage, and rejects the left’s impulse to tear down rather than build up. If Democrats want to win in 2028, they’ll need an agenda, not a wrecking ball.
