OPINION — More than a week into a city crime emergency and after five months of being invaded by Venezuela, life in Washington, D.C., is remarkably normal. Except for the rhetoric from the White House and hundreds of federal troops and agents on the streets, I’m not sure my four kids would know they apparently live in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

Because I focus on House and Senate races, I’m typically covering elections with some geographic and emotional distance. But as a D.C. resident for the past 25 years, the most recent news hits home.

President Donald Trump has painted a grim picture of the nation’s capital. “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and

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