“This just pisses off regular citizens...”
If DC were populated by “regular citizens” there’d be no need for any protest.
I grew up there. They have no industry beyond the passing of laws and regulations constricting the freedoms of the people. The currency in use is either raw units of political power, the small coins of passive aggressive bureaucratic power, or the paper money they manufacture and then steal from the rest of the country at the muzzle of a gun. That was becoming clear by the time I left in 1972. A truly evil energy of enormous weight had settled on the city when I was last there a decade ago. It’s beyond the imagination of most “regular citizens” now.
When we visited DC, all we heard were police and ambulance sirens. The place is a pit!