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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About the same disdain I have for Stirewalt.
Didn’t Stirewall USED to be a Conservative?? He is kind of SILLY, but....
Yeah, you noticed that too...
Moscow on the Potomac.
Just the opposite. He is saying “Come to life, Washington” and return the greatness you had at the beginning. Don’t you see that?
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
Ha!
“Hollywood for ugly people”
Stirewall is a dedicated never trumper.
JFK described DC as a city of “Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
Democrats must love “Republicans” like Stirewalt. Republicans don’t. That is the only reason cretins like him get exposure.
stirewalt writes for the shill? figures, at least FOX fired him.
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