Look at it this way: Brutalist buildings are more “honest.”
All modern buildings are brutalist (reinforced concrete, bare materials) until their glass / metal / brick facades are put on.
The Obama library is the anti-trump building. It’s devoid of flamboyance, false adornment, unnecessary material, or flashy opulence. It is exactly what it wants to be. Imposing but unobtrusive on the skyline. It’s part of the scenery, without becoming the scenery.
Now you’re just splitting hairs. I mean we’d still call solar panels “solar panels,” even if they were collecting energy from another star (say, on an interstellar spaceship).
I’ve asked them. Generally they turn it into a comparison of Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, or Obama. Or, rather, they turn it into the right-wing news outlets distorted funhouse mirror versions of those rivals. They may see that trump is bad, but in their eyes he’s not as bad as those “villains.”
And it will get worse and worse and worse, even after he is gone. Just like with Covid, it will continue to get worse after the new guy gets elected, and (assuming it’s a Dem) the Republicans will blame the new guy for the problem.That’s what they always do.
Look at it this way: Brutalist buildings are more “honest.”
All modern buildings are brutalist (reinforced concrete, bare materials) until their glass / metal / brick facades are put on.
The Obama library is the anti-trump building. It’s devoid of flamboyance, false adornment, unnecessary material, or flashy opulence. It is exactly what it wants to be. Imposing but unobtrusive on the skyline. It’s part of the scenery, without becoming the scenery.