Bring virginia back to RED. Downsizing federal government will clear out the Northern Virginia Rat’s nest.
I don’t know *what* to do about VA. If the RATS exiting DC could give their houses and apartments to VA lifers, while moving in a ton of conservative defense workers while the military is rebuilt, you maybe could swing NOVA red, if you could correctly manage switching out those populations. The RAT trick of gentrifying/whiteifying cities by raising the minumum wage would work, too, not that we’d recommend it.