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Trump to Washington: Drop dead
The Hill ^ | 08/12/25 6:00 AM ET | by Chris Stirewalt

Posted on 08/12/2025 4:13:27 AM PDT by RandFan

Disdain for Washington is the birthright of every American, indeed the entire English-speaking world.

In his two-volume travelogue, “North America,” English novelist Anthony Trollope described the still-incomplete city he found in 1861 “as melancholy and miserable a town as the mind of man can conceive.” He paints a picture of a transient, small city with neither robust commerce nor gracious society, and it didn’t get any better from there.

“So men ate, and drank, and laughed, waiting till chaos should come,” he wrote. “Secure in the belief that the atoms into which their world would resolve itself would connect themselves again in some other form without trouble on their part.” Mark Leibovich could lift that whole and use it in his next book.

Which all makes sense, because no city of any significant size would have ever sprung up on the marshy banks of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Denied a great harbor, like nearby Baltimore, in order to be built inland and sheltered from invasion — which didn’t even work — neither was Washington afforded a pleasant climate like the nearby foothills of the Blue Ridge.

But Washington, born of a compromise between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, wasn’t supposed to be a marvelous place to live and work. It was supposed to belong to no other region, a geographic leftover to which the unlovely work of government could be relegated. Like putting a power plant downriver from a city, Washington was supposed to do important, dirty work, not be beloved.

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How much disdain do you have for Washington... ?
1 posted on 08/12/2025 4:13:27 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

About the same disdain I have for Stirewalt.


2 posted on 08/12/2025 4:19:01 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: TTFlyer

Didn’t Stirewall USED to be a Conservative?? He is kind of SILLY, but....


3 posted on 08/12/2025 4:20:05 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TTFlyer

Yeah, you noticed that too...


4 posted on 08/12/2025 4:25:01 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: RandFan

5 posted on 08/12/2025 4:53:04 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: RandFan

Moscow on the Potomac.


6 posted on 08/12/2025 5:59:45 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: RandFan

Just the opposite. He is saying “Come to life, Washington” and return the greatness you had at the beginning. Don’t you see that?


7 posted on 08/12/2025 6:18:05 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: RandFan

Chris Stirewalt is a slimeball. He was in on the 2020 election steal. He and Arnon Mishkin should be in prison awaiting their death sentence, period! /spit


8 posted on 08/12/2025 6:22:21 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: RandFan

Ha!

“Hollywood for ugly people”


9 posted on 08/12/2025 6:53:27 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Stirewall is a dedicated never trumper.


10 posted on 08/12/2025 7:42:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RandFan

JFK described DC as a city of “Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”


11 posted on 08/12/2025 7:47:48 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: RandFan

Democrats must love “Republicans” like Stirewalt. Republicans don’t. That is the only reason cretins like him get exposure.


12 posted on 08/12/2025 7:48:00 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat, leave them kids alone!)
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To: RandFan

stirewalt writes for the shill? figures, at least FOX fired him.


13 posted on 08/12/2025 7:50:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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