What's it like being a regular, workaday resident of the District of Columbia?

Washington, D.C., is a lot of things: Capital of the United States, shorthand for the U.S. government, a beacon of freedom — or an avatar of choking bureaucracy — for any and all.

But Washington, D.C., is also a city. It’s a city where regular people live, work, play, pray, study, struggle, stumble and succeed. We rent and own homes, we fund city services, we pay taxes — even though we don’t have a voting member of Congress.

And as of last count, there are more than 702,000 of us District of Columbia residents.

So what’s it like being one of these D.C. denizen in the age of Trump 2.0?

I have some thoughts.

I shared them last week on WBAI-FM in New York City with host Jenna Flanagan during a half-hour segment (audio at top) where we dug into this matter and several others.

We were joined by

Laura Jedeed

, who has a fascinating new piece out about her travels through Oman. Be sure to read that, too, here.