Muriel Bowser is the mayor of the District of Columbia and is probably best known for defacing a street near the White House with the Black Lives Matter slogan in 30-foot letters. She pretends, as many do, that BLM’s merit is clear from its anodyne name, ignoring its revolutionary goal of upending society with, for example, efforts to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure,” as its website boasts.

Her taste for civic vandalism is not satisfied with graffiti on the asphalt. She wants to remove, relocate, or “contextualize” the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, and other iconic features of the capital skyline.