For anyone who lives in or has visited Washington, D.C., in the past six years or so, the difference in our nation's capital between the Biden years and today is palpable the moment you cross the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River and into the city.
DC's problems date back much further than the Biden administration, of course, but the COVID lockdowns and mandates put the city's blight into stark relief. And President Trump began reversing that the moment he took office.
Where there were once boarded-up businesses, graffitied statues, filthy homeless encampments, and drug addicts on nearly every street corner, there are now cleaner and safer parks, proud, patriotic America 250 banners, and those street corners are now populated with National Guardsmen who make everyone feel safe walking down the streets.
Of course, all of this is extremely upsetting to The Bulwark's Tim Miller, who labeled the nation's capital 'dystopian' because it is no longer the den of squalor that so many of his favorite blue cities still are.
Haven’t been here in a minute & the national guard presence in DC is dystopian. Tanks outside parks. Guys in fatigues in every neighborhood i’ve been in…Why are we paying for this? Why are we keeping these people from their families? So Trump can do dictator theatre? Madness.
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 12, 2026
First of all, there are no tanks deployed in Washington, D.C.
Not one.
There are no tanks posted up anywhere in DC and if there were he would’ve taken a photo of it.
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 12, 2026
Humvees, yes, but Tim wants you to picture an M1 Abrams sitting in Rock Creek park. https://t.co/XRtsxXNOlt
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Is anyone really surprised that Miller does not know the difference between a tank and a normal Humvee?
We aren't.
There are no "tanks" in DC.
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 12, 2026
There are National Guardsmen who have helped contribute to the lowest homicide rate in DC since 1900. The opposite of dystopian. https://t.co/PIYL3PNgJy
DC is no longer the murder capital of the nation? It's just our clean nation's capital once again?
How horrible and traumatizing for Miller.
Oh no! D.C. is safer and the National Guard is helping people!
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 12, 2026
1. Meridian Park
2. Soldiers help a kid who skinned his knee at the Jefferson Memorial
3. Union Station/Christopher Columbus Memorial Foundation, former tent city https://t.co/ZSxOnI2Cza pic.twitter.com/MOIPLW3NE1
Miller gave himself away in his first words when he said he hadn't visited DC 'in a minute.' Translated, that means he hasn't been there in YEARS.
No wonder he thinks a clean, safe, and proud American city looks 'dystopian.' He's used to the leftist paradises of Oakland and New Orleans.
Tim Miller on his recent trip to DC https://t.co/ovKbJizIuQ pic.twitter.com/Ku4SWdo7sn
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 12, 2026
HAAAAAA!
We're sure that's exactly how Miller imagined himself, seeing those scary National Guardsmen and their fictional tanks.
He would rather have a bunch of black people murdered than have to see dirty, nasty soldiers. https://t.co/ZjRy7gOSl2
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 12, 2026
Remember that crime is not the enemy of Communists. It is their ally.
Miller's other point, that these Guardsmen were away from their families, was so dumb that, naturally, another broken leftist echoed it.
Just had lunch on the DC wharf with grandkids - 4 National Guards strolling the wharf @Timodc - it is a waste of their time -away from their jobs, communities, and families - and a waste of our tax $$$. Daytime wharf is not a high crime area. https://t.co/Du8N6Zs1Gg
— Barbara Comstock (@BarbaraComstock) August 12, 2026
If you walk one block away from The Wharf in Southwest D.C., you are absolutely in a (formerly) high-crime area.
Maybe Comstock doesn't remember the violent 'teen takeovers' (aka, riots) at the Navy Yard.
Of course it’s not a high crime area.
— Mantlo_buscema (@BuscemaMantlo) August 13, 2026
There’s a bunch of National Guards strolling around.
It's not rocket surgery.
As for the National Guard and their families, this is what's known as 'doing their job' and they do get to spend time with their families when they are not on duty.
Washington DC is a federal District that was rampant with violent crime, homelessness, drug abuse, and generally filthy. Protecting the citizens of the district and those who work there must be a priority for our government.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 12, 2026
That’s why https://t.co/ApmAJvbXpb
It's so funny watching leftists who protested against DOGE and continue to ignore rampant fraud in blue states clutch their pearls about how much the DC National Guard deployment costs.
It's also funny that they think everyone else has the same selective memory that they do.
This was under Biden, but you didn't say anything then. Weird, right? pic.twitter.com/CHQHFgPTrL
— TechGeek (@itguy0075) August 12, 2026
Oops.
This writer visits DC often, and can assure readers that there are ZERO barbed wire fences deployed in the city these days.
How many stickups, muggings and carjackings did you see?
— 👣ℙ𝕖𝕕𝕣𝕠'𝕤 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖🇺🇲 (@OfAthenry) August 13, 2026
Was it zero? It was zero wasn't it? P***y.
Ironically, it was an infamous carjacking that may have been the final straw to prod Trump to deploy the National Guard throughout the city.
Even though the leftist justice system in DC refused to punish his attackers, thankfully Ed 'Big Balls' Coristine is doing well after he tried to protect a young woman from violent thugs.
Idk man, it was pretty dystopian when dozens of people I knew were car jacked in Capitol Hill neighborhood and there was a homeless encampment where crazy drugged out people were yelling outside my house.
— Clint Brown (@DissidentClint) August 12, 2026
National Guard in DC is pretty great. https://t.co/FVniv7LtZv
Naturally, the 'journalist' Miller did not take the time to ask any DC residents whether they thought the National Guard keeping them safe was 'dystopian.'
He could have just rang up Frank Luntz. It wouldn't have been difficult.
You didn’t take any photos of the purported tanks?
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 13, 2026
Ultimately, X users realized that there is only one prescription to help Miller deal with the trauma of seeing our nation's capital clean, safe, and, yes, great again:
— G (@stevensongs) August 13, 2026
Meep.
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