If politics are downstream from politics, Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again is great and welcome news.
I give historical tours of DC to high-level public and private sector visitors from Europe. I propose to them that the buildings reflect the people, and they are amazed at how the periodization in architecture directly speaks for the attitudes of the political culture.
They’re usually disappointed by the Reagan Building, which has significant classical elements, as that would mark a return to classical culture, but when they see the HUD and Energy buildings, they get it.
Sounds fascinating!
Once I proudly took visitors from Rome, Italy to see "one of the oldest public buildings in the U.S.", which was Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Constitution was signed. They were very polite, but it was all they could do to suppress their eyerolls at the great age of a building from the mid-18th century! LOL! I quickly realized my gaffe. Saint Paul walked on many of the same stones in the streets of Rome that are still there...