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The pictures of the prototypes have been widespread and are the subject of numerous articles.
Each prototype is monolithic, corporate, severe.
The Department of Homeland Security has allocated around $20 million to build and study them.
(Not 45 minutes?
Not a tunnel seven feet below the wall?
Not a lightweight, portable, 31-foot aluminum extension ladder?)
The walls look like generic prison, industrial, and institutional architecture.
Buchels proposal is straightforward.
Buchels petition does something similar.
And I love it a lot, too; it changed my life.
Apologists often claimed these works were aesthetically charged and radical but were nevertheless still neutral.
Which fittingly brings us back to Trump.
And I think mustnt be forgotten.
Buchels proposal made me see glimmers of hope in the hopelessness.
And this Trumpian monument will stand for this last gasp of the mythical infatuation with race.
