The hardest violence to stop, though, will be from radicalised individuals who pick up a gun and decide to go to 'war' — against Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence, local politicians, the media and tech companies.

People are listening to Lin Wood over on Parler saying Pence is a traitor, John Roberts a child molester and Biden a spy who all need to be executed.

Angry Trump supporters are saying that any Congressman, especially any GOP Congressman, who voted against overturning the election is a traitor worthy of death. Some of them mean it literally.

Someone put functional bombs at the DNC and RNC on Jan 6. As far as we know, that person has not been apprehended yet.

I'm not saying for sure that there will be a MAGA terror attack. But if there's one, there will be more than one. They would feed off of each other, making responsible media coverage very important.

And so I don't think I'm disagreeing with @TimAlberta. US politics, especially at the local level, is going to be nasty, scary and potentially dangerous.

But we need to know what we're fighting and avoid the temptation to fight the last war. I hope inauguration goes off without any major disruption, but that's the beginning of all this, not the end.