{"id":4105,"date":"2016-11-15T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2016-11-15T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:16:18","slug":"dc-after-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/dc-after-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"DC after Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no denying the mood swing in the District of Columbia following the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States. It&#8217;s been a somber week on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly goes beyond\u00a0the simple fact that Trump won just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/2016-election-results\/washington-dc\/\">4.1% of the city&#8217;s vote<\/a>, or the fact that he represents the Republican party. His specific campaign of white grievance politics, xenophobia, and know-nothingness cut against the District&#8217;s civic values.<\/p>\n<p>This is bad. \u00a0But\u00a0that&#8217;s no reason to overreact.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that this will <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/implications-of-trumpmcconnellryan.html\">send the city&#8217;s economy tumbling<\/a> is without evidence. Previous changes in administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/news\/2016\/11\/09\/will-trump-and-an-administration-of-outsiders.html\">haven&#8217;t impacted housing prices<\/a> one way or another. Despite the role as a capital city, the reality is that so much of what happens in this city extends well beyond the reach of the federal government. President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/how-to-rebrand-dc-should-the-region-embrace-federal-government-or-shun-it\/2016\/10\/25\/23cd9aa4-9af7-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">might be the best opportunity those seeking to &#8216;re-brand&#8217; the DC region<\/a> never wanted.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8216;culture,&#8217; starting from the premise that DC&#8217;s culture is solely defined by the handful of people working in the West Wing is never a good start for an article about city life in Washington. Likewise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/a-newly-vibrant-washington-fears-that-trump-will-drain-its-culture.html?src=twr&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">asserting that the city was a rotting shell<\/a> until the Obama family arrived is laughable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what anyone says, there&#8217;s absolutely no clear indication of what a Trump administration would mean for infrastructure or urban policy. The dog caught the car; nobody knows what will happen next. We&#8217;ll have lots of battles about the federal role in shaping our cities, but those battles will take place in a different, national context.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean there isn&#8217;t opportunity here. There&#8217;s room for the District to step up and take the lead. If city leaders\u00a0want to soothe\u00a0concerns about the impact on the city&#8217;s economy or culture, then there&#8217;s no better time than now to take the reigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no denying the mood swing in the District of Columbia following the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States. It&#8217;s been a somber week on the streets. It certainly goes beyond\u00a0the simple fact that Trump won just 4.1% of the city&#8217;s vote, or the fact that he represents the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,68,531],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dc","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-14d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}