Nothing good. And so there’s no confusion, I’m referring to the District, not Official Wor-Shing-Tun.

To start with, D.C., which is now a place of last resort for women who need an abortion, would be turned into a Republican anti-abortion territory (boldface mine):

With an election looming, activists and providers worry that this could soon change: Under the strange rules governing the capital, Congress can simply ignore the locals and enact municipal laws, meaning a Republican trifecta could quickly lead to a D.C. ban. That’s what some anti-abortion organizations are calling for. And while Donald Trump now says the issue should be up to states, the nation’s capital isn’t a state. Trump’s own GOP platform vows to “reassert greater Federal Control over Washington, D.C.”

Trump’s campaign claims this wouldn’t happen, but given the willingness of Republicans to intervene in everything else the Distrct does, including right-turn-on-red traffic legislation, why should we trust Trump on this? Of course, given Trump’s lies about everything, there’s no reason to trust his campaign at all on much else either.

That would just be the start, as Republicans could essentially turn our democratically-elected officials into (even moreso) figureheads (boldface mine):

The president has the power to reinstate the Control Board, an authority appointed by the president that took control of local D.C. matters from 1995 to 2001.

Former D.C. Council Member Jack Evans was on the council in the 1990s when then-President Bill Clinton took control of the city away from the mayor and council. He’s said he’s not optimistic about the potential results if the Control Board returns.

“It would be catastrophic for the city, because you get one swing at the plate,” Evans said. “A second time we get a Control Board in this city, we won’t get rid of it, and it’ll be here for a long, long time. So, I can’t stress the importance of this not happening.”

“Democracy would pretty much not exist in the sense that the Control Board and city manager would be running the city,” Evans explained. “The mayor would have ceremonial functions like Barry did back in the day,” referring to former Mayor Marion Barry Jr.

The council would still exist, meet and pass laws, according to Evans, “but the Control Board could overturn any law that the council passed.”

The Control Board never went away; it just went dormant. The president could declare either a fiscal or crime emergency and then appoint a five-member authority that would run the city. That would include the day-to-day operations of the D.C. government.

Under those circumstances, the mayor and D.C. Council would have very little power.

And Project 2025 wants to muck with D.C. schools even more, including expanding school vouchers and banning ‘critical race theory.’

I realize that, for most Americans, D.C. statehood is about gaining two Democratic senators, but for the residents of the District it’s about democracy. We deserve the right to govern ourselves–and fuck that up–just like everyone else.

D.C. statehood must be a priority for a Harris administration.