While that is definitely a ‘plus’, everybody seems to be neglecting the fact that with the city under direct federal executive control, there will be no security forces independent of federal executive or legislative to oppose another January 6th-type insurrection. Not the US Capitol Police, not the Metro Police Department of D.C., not the D.C. National Guard. The GOP is very concerned about mid-term elections going against them in the House of Representatives, and while all of the current attention is on how they are trying to radically gerrymander the already highly tortured electoral map of Texas, they are also busy in the statehouses of other Republican-dominated states. It is not much of a stretch to imagine that they are also covering bases just in case that election doesn’t go their way (they are already trying to take over election boards and sow doubts about election integrity in states and districts that they don’t control) and if all else fails to appeal to their masses to directly interfere in the election and certification processes at both statehouse and Congressional levels. Not having an independent DC law enforcement presence certainly makes it much easier for the latter.
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