Symblematic

Sir, keep your plans; and if in secrecy they will work the end desired, if they will place the cross-bars of the Confederation among the symblematic emblems of independent nations, guard them, with all the wisdom of your suspecting nature, and treasure them, in the most sacred place of your ungrateful heart.

standing at bar, wearing outfit symblematic of the Dutch; liquor bottle in foreground; identical to 2009-NLF-019-121

But it’s symblematic of deeper, year-long problems.