Heavily Democratic D.C. braces for a swamp-draining new Republican president - The Washington Post
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“We’re going to make D.C. great again,” said Patrick Mara, leader of the District’s Republican Party who, after eight years of a Democratic president, found himself experiencing an unfamiliar sense of joy when Trump won.
Mara couldn’t share his elation with his wife, Shannon, a Democrat, or his neighbors in Columbia Heights, where Clinton was the overwhelming choice. In fact, Mara said, for two weeks after the election he avoided eye contact with most people he encountered because “you couldn’t be happy in front of them.”
“It was like their spouse had died, their child had died, and their dog had been hit by a car,” he said. “You just never saw this level of loss.”