Trump's inauguration

Forgive me for having whiplash. The inauguration of Donald Trump was astonishing enough for most reporters and political observers gathered in Washington amid a polar vortex of brutally cold temperatures, but the decision to move the elaborate ceremony indoors made it particularly surreal for me. For where did the inaugural events take place? They unfolded in the magnificent Rotunda, the sacred space of US democracy directly below the dome of the United States Capitol.