Extremism reporter Will Sommer of The Bulwark says Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's effort to build a luxury resort in Albania is likely dead, as public anger over the project fuels a wave of unrest that has swept the country since the plan was announced. Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump, and Kushner, her husband, both served as senior advisers in the Trump White House — ties that have drawn scrutiny to the project far beyond Albania's borders.

Protesters burned Albania's Supreme Court building to the ground over the weekend. The parliament building and the education department have also been vandalized, and the prime minister is in hiding.

Under the proposal, Trump and Kushner were set to spend between $1.4 billion and $4 billion to build a luxury resort on Sazan Island and parts of the nearby Zvërnec peninsula along Albania's southern coast. Opposition has centered on residents' refusal to lose access to beaches that sit within a protected ecosystem.

Allegations have also surfaced that the president and other government officials are being influenced by investors. Meanwhile, residents of the Zvërnec peninsula claim their homes and land were sold out from under them to Kushner and Trump, though the dispute centers on government actions rather than on Kushner directly taking the land.

The environmentally protected area is also a habitat for flamingos. As Sommer explained, the community's affection for the birds and other wildlife on one of the islands prompted activists to name their uprising the Flamingo Revolution.

A New York Times exposé revealed that the project has already cleared large amounts of land and built roads and bridges — work that proceeded even as the government maintained that everything was on pause for an environmental assessment.

What began as a dispute over the resort project and its ties to the Trump family has since grown into a broader fight against corruption.

"I don't understand why this land project is not just dead," said The Bulwark's Sam Stein. "Clearly, no one wants it."

"I think it's fair to it's pretty dead," Sommer explained. "I mean, you know, some of the payments have been frozen because of various corruption questions. Now they're calling for the president to resign. And, so, I think at that point maybe he can hang on to his job. If he does that, I don't think he's going to say, 'Now back to building the resort.'"

Those two pressures — the frozen payments and the resignation calls — now frame what comes next for the project and for the uprising it helped spark.

Stein suggested the resort was cursed from the start. The two went on to mock Ivanka Trump for her comments about the "beautiful hectares of land" after she mispronounced "hectares." Her pronunciation prompted both men to burst into laughter.

"And she just walked on it. It was pristine," said Stein with a laugh.

"It was like a Cold War submarine base," Sommer said.

"With a bunch of flamingos that had ended up there," Stein continued. "We had to have it. It's going to be this big eco-friendly resort. And now we have a Supreme Court building burning down because of this dumb, dumb idea. Let it rest. They should come out and say 'We're not doing this. Don't burn anymore buildings.' It's one of those situations where they started the fire. They should put it out."