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Washington DC. Is Not America

Washington, D.C., doesn’t just lean left. It rules a country it doesn’t represent—and the tools to change that do exist.

Allan J. Feifer | May 10, 2026

Washington, D.C., its institutions, and the people who choose to live there are the epitome of everything the rest of us hate about the direction our country has taken. It’s as if a foreign enemy governs us. For decades, the Washington elite have come after traditional America, and they’re winning.

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump received only 21,076 votes in D.C., which was 6.47% of the total cast. That’s not just because it 41.4% of its population is black. Nationwide, blacks voted for Trump at around 16–17%. It’s the 39.6% of whites who make the difference. Immediately outside of D.C., in the affluent suburbs where many of D.C.’s very white political class live, the share of votes for Harris was in the 70-80% range.

D.C. is not a microcosm of America; it is its political inverse. Yet this single, self-contained enclave of ideological uniformity sits at the apex of the world’s most powerful nation’s governing apparatus.

D.C.-based bureaucrats write the regulations that govern every American business, farm, and household. Senior managers at the EPA, DOJ, HHS, and Education determine how laws passed by a divided Congress are implemented—and most pointedly, how aggressively. Political appointees set enforcement priorities and policies that flow outward.

Elected officials, their staffs, lobbyists, contractors, and consultants all coalesce around the same political culture—where a 90% consensus is normal. In an environment such........

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