When Totalitarianism Comes to D.C.: The Renaming Edition

Not Wor-Shing-Tun, but the mainland colony known as the District of Columbia. MAGA totalitarians want to rename things (boldface mine):

Late last month, Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube introduced a bill that would halt any funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority unless its name was changed. Steube, whose southwest Florida district is about 950 miles from Washington, proposed WMATA be rechristened the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access or … WMAGA.

The legislation also called for Metrorail, the system’s flagship rail line, to be renamed the “Trump Train.”

The bill, Steube said in a statement, would signal a “cultural shift away from bureaucratic stagnation toward public-facing excellence and patriotism.”

This won’t pass, but if we leave aside both the sycophancy of Republican Congressman Steube and the reality that Trump hasn’t done a damn thing to make WMATA any better (traditionally, that has been a reason to name something after someone), the notion that everything in the U.S. must reflect the brilliance of the Great Leader is fundamentally totalitarian: Il Trumpe must intrude into every part of life. It’s not just a grubby lust for power (or money), it is a desire to dominate every sphere of life. This is repellent.

And I thought renaming Washington National Airport Reagan National Airport was bad…

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