National Guardsmen on patrol near the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Dec. 1, 2025. Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images

Conservative: DC Elites Loathe Their Protectors

“DC’s electorate may be the most lopsided in the nation,” observes Mary Eberstadt at The Free Press .

Last year, the nation’s capital “90.3 percent voted for Kamala Harris, as opposed to 6.5 percent for Trump.”

But even deep partisanship can’t account for “the rancor to which the National Guard and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been subject along the Potomac.”

Though the Guard is credited with substantially “reducing and deterring violent crime,” this “turn, too, has been disparaged by many locals,” whose “enmity toward the National Guard betrays” a “disconnection from fellow Americans.”

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