Every American, despised to Washington, is actually the birthright of the entire English -speaking world.
In his two-block travelogues, “North America,” English novelist Anthony Trolope still described the disorganized city found in 1861, “as a city and as a city as a city, man’s mind can conceive.” He Paints a picture Neither strong commerce nor gracious society with a transient, small town, and it did not get any better from there.
“So men ate, and drank, and laughing, should wait until anarchy,” he wrote. “It is safe in the belief that the atom in which his world will solve itself will again add himself to some other form without trouble.” Mark Libovich You can pick up that whole and use it in your next book.
Which makes all understanding, as any city of any important size will never bounce on the marshy banks of Potomac and Annicostia rivers. Refuses a great port like a nearby Baltimore to make it inland and shelter from the attack – Who did not work – Neither Washington had spent a pleasant climate like a nearby foothills of Blue Ridge.
But a compromise between Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton was born supposed To be a wonderful place to live and work. It was not belonging to any other area, a geographical remaining, for which the ineffective work of the government could be re -recorded. Like setting up a power plant from a city, Washington should have done important, dirty work, not dear.
Add to the very American trend to offend those to pretend to show for the rights, especially when they use that authority to spend people’s money poorly and prepare the rules that they do not follow themselves, and Washington was born to be born.
But there is no section of people in the world with a stronger contempt for Washington than New Yorkers, the city in which traded in 1790 was the capital. It is congenital to them.
During his brief wedding to Celebrity journalist Carl Bernstein, Archetic New Yorker Nora Efron, who lives in Washington, called it a city “where thoughts went to die.” In fact, there is A complete journalist New yorker dumping on Washington. Once, a pool report about the then Presidential Barack Obama visited Washington Post in 2009, New York Times Reporter Even found in a job “The nondesscript Soviet-style building 15th and L.”
A city has a fair swipe, with the architectural metal detectors a collection of Hampton Ins, combines neo -classical grandeur.
New Yorkers especially ange the hypocrisy of Washington. A twelfth size of Big apple – Small than flyover locations like Oklahoma City and Indianapolis Dare New York’s rival-Washington, some middle-filled bureaucrats, hack pole, narda and sticky-hearted middle schoolrs govering in the lunar capsules, are closed?
Therefore, Donald Trump, a person who could be produced by any other city other than New York, is very true for its roots as he declares a summer weight martial law for Washington.
Citing a law, which allows the President to nationalize the police of the city, when “special conditions of emergency nature exist,” Trump has commanded the police and called the National Guard. Emergency, Trump says that with a gift for a new yorker restraint, “crime, bloodshed, badge and squall and worse.”
Washington has less violent crime When he started his first term eight years agoBut as the presidents have learned very well, an emergency is in the eyes of an announcer. The Congress, which is actually responsible for DC according to the Constitution, has no doubt that its right right will be emphasized and pushed behind against this unprecedented overache. Just after stopping emergency tariff powers, emergency immigration powers, emergency energy powers and drug emergency powers.
No, we know that Washington is still a trollope’s Washington. But now, they do not even eat, drink and laugh because they wait for their world’s atoms “to re -connect themselves in some other form without any hassle.” It is all happy livestream, lukewarm, protein-rich quinoa bowls and 6 am cold dip. There is no smoke in smoke -filled rooms.
If Republican prefers to hate Washington, however, Democrats have the opposite problem: they hate love.
The DEMS has spent nearly 40 years committed to the state’s cause for the state, a constitutional NO-not, which is still uncomfortable for three electoral college votes, two new senators and another seat promise in the House that will always be blue.
The party line is that the people of Washington are some types of American ghazans, who deny self-governance by colonists. But Americans have to take a lot of care about a place known as “Hollywood for ugly people”, especially when it is A company city where the company never has a recession,
And so, Washington lives as “somewhere else”, a city whose character is defined by his fleeting – a place where all the most notable residents are from elsewhere.
Chris Steirwallt is the Hill, Veteran Abhiyan and Election Journalist Editor for Journalist and the best -selling books about American political history.
