So sure, some of what we’re seeing in Washington, D.C., right now is Democrats worried about the MAGA crowd traveling into the city from the suburbs, exurbs, and beyond and rioting . . . but a lot of it is non-riot-inclined Democrats fearing the angry young leftist crowd that already lives in the city will take to the streets and rage and rampage.

Could Harris win narrowly, Trump and the MAGA crowd insist the election was stolen, and we get a rerun of January 6? Sure. We’ve seen it before.

But we also saw quite a bit of violence on Trump’s inauguration day back in January 2017, which has largely been forgotten and hand-waved away, because it complicates the Democrats’ preferred narrative that political violence is a right-wing phenomenon.