You can point to countless facts that explain the increasing alienation of ordinary Americans from their elites, but you can also see why by looking at one chart and thinking about it for a second. 

These are the final vote percentages in the District of Columbia for the past 24 years, with the exception of 2024 because the final tally has yet to come in. 

If the percentages hold in the final vote tally, Democrats will grow their hold on the D.C. vote to almost 95% in 2024. 

Now, look at the map of the 2024 election. 

One of these things is not like the other. As Americans moved right, Washington D.C. once again moved left. The District, and by extension, the ruling elite, are not like us. 

Before some lib screams, "Washington D.C. is majority black, and that is why it is Democrat," you are actually wrong. Since 1970, Washington has become increasingly white and multiracial, with only about 40% of the population being black. It has gentrified as the federal government has become ever more bloated and has become even more economically segregated. Ironically, ground zero of the DEI movement is one of the most racially and economically divided cities in America, with minorities often being relegated to either clients of the state or servants to an elite class who are rapidly importing even more cheap labor to cater to their whims. 

Washington, D.C. looks like America as much as Trump looks like Hitler, which is to say not in the littlest bit. It is filled with arrogant, entitled, and authoritarian twits who hate the American people and who identify with transnational elites who hate Americans even more than they do. 

The Roman empire, to say the least, had its flaws, but one thing that is striking is that the leaders of Rome did more to help outlying cities look more like Rome than Washington, D.C. elites have done to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, at least until the empire began to crumble. Our elites identify with Americans in Iowa less than Roman elites did with the Gauls or Romano Britons. 

Any country in which the people running it are so divorced from the realities of the people they rule is doomed to decline, and the 2024 election sent a simple message to Washington elites: we won't put up with it. The decisive Trump victory sent a simple and strong message to the bureaucrats in Washington: you work for us, not the other way around. 

Almost every state in America moved right this year. Washington, D.C., moved left. 

The entire darn country moved Right. Including CA, NY, and IL. pic.twitter.com/1wvqCc5kDG

— Garrison Moratto (@GarrisonMoratto) November 6, 2024

The Acela Corridor--the region that flows from Washington, D.C. through Baltimore, New York, to Boston--America's megalopolis--is dominated by the transnational elite, but no place is it as concentrated as the D.C. urban area and in Manhattan. These people do not see themselves as primarily American but as "citizens of the world" who are entitled to rule over us because they know better. 

The truth is that they know nothing of importance. Everything they touch turns to crap. They cover that up with propaganda, phony statistics (the economy is GREAT!), and hoaxes. 

We need to clean out the Augean Stables. Move entire bureaucracies--slimmed-down bureaucracies--out of Washington. Make our government live like us. 

Ban public employee unions. Close entire agencies. Fire everybody at the top. 

Make Washington, D.C. part of America again.