In Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood, thousands gathered around the scaffolding-draped Kennedy Center on a Friday evening to contest what they believe may be the deliberate erasure of a national cultural landmark. The closure of the facility, ordered by its board just hours after a court blocked the president's attempt to inscribe his name on the building, has fused legal conflict with architectural anxiety. A photograph of the president holding a partially visible placard bearing the word 'DEMOLIS...' became the image around which a deeper fear crystallized — that power, when it moves qu