It's difficult to find a single redeeming quality of liberal movements these days. Maybe it's the abject pettiness, like children throwing a tantrum, that makes them hard to respect. Or, maybe it's their violent emotional tendencies and complete lack of moral integrity. They are willing to do anything to gain power, including lie, cheat, steal and even murder.
At bottom, the unstable psychological drivers of leftists lead them to hate certain things that most normal people love, including the basic maintenance of respected national monuments.
One might think that the Trump Administration's repairs to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool would be minor news, but the establishment media and progressive activists have turned the site repairs into a political battleground. CNN has spent more time "investigating" the growth of green algae in the pool than they did on the massive Somalian fraud networks in Minneapolis. Apparently, CNN isn't aware that algae grows naturally in standing water in a matter of 48 hours.
Activists tired to make hay out of the green pool, claiming that Trump wasted $14 million on his renovations, even though the same thing happened after Barack Obama's $35 million renovation from 2010 to 2012, and those repairs didn't even solve the leakage problems.
When Trump responded to the algae issue with new "nano bubbler" treatments, leftists actually protested online and at the site against the removal of the green sludge.
In other words, they got mad that the treatments were working and they could no longer use the algae as an example of Trump failure. They then turned to direct sabotage of the site. Pieces of the floor of the reflecting pool have been torn out and the new sealant has been damaged.
The numbers "8647" have been found scratched into the floor of the pool (a code for "murder Trump").
Multiple activists have reportedly been arrested, some caught in the process of trying to sabotage the monument. Others have tried to interfere with maintenance workers cleaning the algae. The National Guard and DC police are now stationed at the pool around the clock to prevent further damage.
Yes, the trifling behavior is off the charts, but this has become the standard of discourse for the woke mob in 2026. The worst part, though, is that the media has been running interference for the vandals, claiming that the repairs were "substandard" and that the water treatments are causing the sealant to peel. In reality, the damages are being caused by a coordinated monkey wrenching campaign, and the liberal media is silent about it.
The political left views monuments as symbolic targets; a way to attack western culture and demoralize the population without risking substantial jail time. We have seen similar tactics used by climate change protesters across Europe and the US. It's no coincidence that these activists choose iconic western treasures, such as classic artworks or an original copy of the Magna Carta, to vandalize.
Climate change is just the excuse, but the real goal is to incrementally deface anything symbolic of western civilization or national pride. The same mentality applies to the sabotage of the Lincoln reflecting pool. On top of that, the media takes the opportunity to paint Trump as incompetent or ineffective, turning something positive like monument restoration into an ugly propaganda affair.