When I was a kid, I wanted to live in Washington, DC. My aunt and uncle lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs, so when we visited them, we toured DC, too. That was the 1990s, and the city was beautiful then. The rich history, the significant landmarks of our country, all in one place: what’s not to like? 

The last time I visited DC was for “The Mother of All Rallies” in September 2017. A friend of mine rented an Airbnb for us to stay near the Capitol. The Rally was kind of a dud (about 350 showed up), but at least I could lobby several Congressmen and US Senators. One of them called the police on me, but nothing major happened. In fact, the streets, especially near all the Capitol and monument buildings, were clean. There were some ghetto sections of DC, but I never felt unsafe driving through or parking. 

I love our federal city. I like the sense of being in the heart of the action, where all the major decisions are made in our government. Who doesn’t want to walk the streets where our Presidents and their coterie of cabinet members reasoned and argued with each other? 

But from Trump’s first term in office to recently, the whole country has noticed how perversely left-wing—and unsafe—our nation’s capital has devolved. Sure, DC has always been “Democrat City,” having never elected a Republican mayor, and the last Republican city councilman left in 2009, but now it’s gone full-blown Woke. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her all-Democrat city council have taken the city to very dark places. 

Sadly, the perfect nickname for our federal capital should be “Dark City.” Not just the politics, but also because of how corrupt and criminal it has become. When Tucker Carlson lived in DC, Antifa militants surrounded his home, terrorized his wife and children. The crime rates exceed those of major cities in third-world countries! That’s just unconscionable.

From the George Floyd riots to the present........

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