Heavily Democratic D.C. braces for a swamp-draining new Republican president

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/heavily-democratic-dc-braces-for-a-swamp-draining-new-republican-president/2017/01/13/18777e06-cdef-11e6-a747-d03044780a02_story.html?utm_term=.145ef92ca7c7 ^ | 2017-01-14 | Paul Schwartzman

[E. Pluribus Unum]

At 6 on the morning after the election, Mindy Moretti, a writer and editor residing in the District, reserved a rental car that she intends to load with her mutt Maisey and an overnight bag to drive out of Washington just before Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

“They’re coming — it’s inevitable,” Moretti said of the new administration. “But that doesn’t mean I have to be here with the welcome wagon.”

Alisha Edmonson, the owner of the Songbyrd Music House in Adams Morgan, is hosting inauguration week fundraisers for Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, a dance party in honor of President Obama, and a brunch special celebrating his family’s move to nearby Kalorama.

The bar will sponsor no such welcome to Washington for the Trumps, including the president-elect’s daughter, Ivanka, who also is moving to Kalorama. “We are not a political space; we’re a safe space,” Edmonson said by way of explanation, smiling as she chose her words carefully. She declined to elaborate.

Presidential transitions are a staple of Washington’s political theater, a choreographed swirl of handshakes, air kisses and moving trucks that typically unfolds without disturbing the capital city’s tightly scripted rhythms.

[Awgie]

I look forward to all the sob stories from displaced democrat operatives as thy here those famous words, YOURE FIRED!