Five planks on the District stand out as declarations of party principles and objectives.

Most D.C. citizens view the city as belonging to them. Not so, wrote Trump and his party in the first plank: “The nation’s capital city is a special responsibility of the federal government because it belongs both to its residents and to all Americans, millions of whom visit it every year.”

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That platform statement offers a clue to what it will be like during the Trump era.

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It signals, for example, that the day of the White House deferring to the judgment of elected D.C. democratic leaders soon will be over.

Case in point: President Obama, like President Clinton, granted D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) courtesy to recommend candidates for federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement offices in the District, such as the U.S. attorney.

The likelihood of deference being shown to D.C. Democrats by Trump and Congress on matters considered to be a responsibility of the federal government (i.e., future appointment of federal judges and federal offices) is slim to none. In the spirit of the platform, Republicans, not city leaders, will have the ultimate voices on District affairs, because they have the votes.

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The second plank in the platform, which touts the expansion of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program or school vouchers, is more than a statement of political objective. Noting that Obama and D.C. Democratic Party leaders oppose Opportunity Scholarships, the platform extols the program as a vehicle through which “thousands of low-income children have been able to attend a school of their choice and receive a quality education.” Going forward, federally funded school choice will be a permanent part of the D.C. education landscape, notwithstanding the mayor and council.

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The third plank pounds nails into the D.C. budget autonomy coffin. The GOP platform accuses Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the council of illegally trying to seize from Congress its appropriating power over all funding for the District. The plank states: “We expect Congress to assert, by whatever means necessary, its constitutional prerogatives regarding the District.” Budget autonomy, beginning in January, will be spoken of in past tense.

The platform’s fourth D.C. plank comes out blazing in defense of the Second Amendment. Charging District officials with engaging in a campaign of massive resistance to the Supreme Court’s rulings on gun rights, the plank states that “the Republican Congress should be prepared, upon the inauguration of a Republican president, to enact legislation allowing law-abiding Washingtonians to own and carry firearms.” Count on it: During the era of Trump and a GOP Congress, the District will become an “open carry” state.

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Finally, the platform addresses statehood, or to put it bluntly, buries statehood. It can’t be done except by a constitutional amendment, the plank states. “A statehood amendment was soundly rejected by the states when last proposed in 1976 and should not be revived.” Period.

And thus, it will be the end of D.C. ownership of the District, as declared in the platform drafted and approved by Trump and the Republican convention.