Was here for a year during the first term of the Shrub administration, and moved back towards the end of it. DC has always been a bit cyclical depending on who inhabited the White House. One restauranteur who’s had multiple places in DC told me that business was better during the Obama and Clinton administrations than when any Republican was in office.

Trump’s malignant brand of conservatism did change DC. In prior administrations, people could occasionally work in a bipartisan fashion. These America First MAGAts are an entirely different breed, and I shudder to think what will happen if we get Meatball Ron or any of his ilk in the White House.