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DC Residents Are Fretting About Possible, Post-Election Fallout. So Am I.

Plenty of folks are concerned about this upcoming election, especially the presidential elections – and one of the things people find troubling is the possibility of unrest, no matter who wins. Candidly, I’d be much more inclined to be concerned about unrest following a Trump victory, as most of the political unrest in the United States in the last decade or so has come from the left, not the right.

We’re concerned enough about it to have made some plans. My in-laws are elderly, both visually impaired, both not in the best of health, and they live in a suburb of a major city in a blue state. We’re flying them to Alaska just before the election, and they’ll spend a couple of weeks here until we’re satisfied that things won’t explode, because no matter what happens in places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York, the Susitna Valley will remain pretty peaceful.

Turns out residents of the nation’s capital are likewise concerned, and some of them are, to put it bluntly, bailing. Politico columnist Michael Schaffer has some thoughts, and not surprisingly, so do I.

Kate Brown moved to Washington for politics. But on election week, she’s leaving town for the same reason.

“I just want to get the eff out of Dodge,” Brown told me recently. “I don’t feel like dealing with it.”

“It,” in this case, doesn’t mean the tension of working an election. Brown does marketing and communications for mostly libertarian policy wonks, and election week isn’t exactly a busy time for book talks and white papers. Instead, she’s worried about safety — though she can’t quite picture exactly what the threat looks like.

I have a pretty good idea of what the threat will look like: Hordes of angry leftists, as we saw in 2020’s “Summer of Love,” as we saw in last summer’s antisemitic protests and riots over Israel’s response to the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. The left likes to hyperventilate about January 6th, 2021, which was, at best, hooliganism, while ignoring 2020 and 2024; they should not be worrying about any motes in Republican eyes but rather the beams in their own.

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2 thoughts on “DC Residents Are Fretting About Possible, Post-Election Fallout. So Am I.”

  1. I work in DC , and have done so for years. The last few years have seen just bizarre crime behavior, on top of the typical wacky stuff inherent in a big city. All sorts of advertisements for bar/pub watch nights are out, and without a doubt, if Trump wins (I believe whole heartedly he will, despite all the things the democrats have done/are doing) the lid will positively blow off this place. I’ve made plans to leave town early and I’m staying clear until Wednesday.

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