There's no "emergency" justifying the takeover.  The "solution" is to do what Democrats failed to do for decades: Make DC the 51st state so it need not undergo such "humiliation."

Where to start?

My point of departure is political.  Washington is the "federal city."  The Constitution is explicit.  Congress has exclusive jurisdiction over "the district constituting the seat of government."

Washington was a political compromise — neutral territory between North and South, chosen as an uninhabited swamp between Maryland and Virginia (and conveniently upriver from George Washington's Mount Vernon).  It was supposed to be apolitical.  Democrats want to make it hyper-political.

The reaction to the Trump federalization of D.C. law enforcement is to claim that "this proves we should have made D.C. a state!"  Well, no it doesn't.  All it proves is your naked political ambitions to guarantee the left two senators and a bunch of congressmen.

There's a lot of jabber about "home rule."  There are two largely unmentioned facts about "home rule."  First, it is an historical anomaly.  Nobody talked about D.C. "home rule" until 1974.  For nearly 185 years of the Republic, D.C. functioned under its constitutional identity as the "federal district."  And don't tell me that the string of illustrious nobodies leading D.C. for the past 50 years — including such a distinguished figure as Mayor Marion Barry, convicted for possession and use of crack cocaine — proves the merits of "home rule."  It arguably demonstrates the opposite.

Second, whatever "home rule" D.C. has is whatever Congress gives it.  Its government has the powers Congress delegates — no more, no less.  It exists at the sufferance of Congress — i.e., the collective decision of the people of the United States (as the Constitution intended).  So all these claims about "denying home rule" are so much political smoke.

Congressional Democrats have been trying to hike Washington's political clout for decades.  Back in the days of "home rule," the Democrat Congress even thought of giving D.C. congressional seats as if it were a state.  Such a constitutional amendment was even proposed in 1978.  It passed the Senate with the bare minimum of votes and died in ratification, having been approved by only 16 (mostly blue) of the required 38 states.