There is an organized effort to protest President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration at demonstrations across the country in the days leading up to January 20, 2025. The unrest that accompanied President Trump’s first inauguration in January 2017 serves as a precedent for what to expect.

At approximately 0315 on January 1, an individual intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people gathered on Bourbon Street in New Orleans for New Year’s celebrations. As TorchStone has previously discussed, vehicular assaults are notoriously simple to carry out and can be very deadly. This was the deadliest attack on U.S. soil…