Is this what conservatism has come to?
The essay catalogs a string of demolitions and rollbacks it attributes to Republican officials: the East Wing of the White House, threats to the Kennedy Center, shrunken protections at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, and repealed vehicle emissions standards. It also cites Florida's bulldozing of a historic Tallahassee house, the Gladstone, which the DeSantis administration justified as a security measure for the Governor's Mansion grounds.
On the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility, the piece recounts Department of Homeland Security findings of violations, detainee conditions described as cages, and diesel generator emissions it says breached the Clean Air Act, alongside Governor DeSantis's denials of responsibility.
It closes on the Army Corps of Engineers' plan to dredge the Apalachicola River, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, despite the Corps' own reporting that the channel lacks economic significance, tying the project to a 2025 Florida law stripping local governments of growth-management powers.
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