"If you need all this to protect your inauguration from the people, maybe the f'ing people didn't f'ing elect you!"

I can't improve on those, the words of a bluecollar worker in the national capital on the weekend before the first post-democratic presidential inauguration. For the first time in 53 years the Democrat Party have discovered an application for armed force that meets with their approval: enforcing against the civilian population their seizure of total power for remaking America into Venezuela, and playing a part in the party pantomime to impress on us all that those people who dissent from The Party are dangerous and murderous "insurrectionists" and "seditionists".   

25,000 National Guard complemented by hundreds of specialized regulars, plus city and Capitol police -- several times the numbers deployed today to Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria put together -- licensed to kill civilians at their discretion. A Green Zone and a Red Zone as in wartime Baghdad, military checkpoints for entry to and exit from the downtown, bridges to the capital closed, and the perimeter secured by twelve-foot razor-wired fencing. And still The Party blame "security threats" for the abortion that is their inaugural ceremonies, and the dirty FBI "vet" the patriot National Guard. The commander of the Guard for the District of Columbia subjects his men to three layers of investigation, on suspicion of plotting an "insider attack", and a senior Democrat helpfully explains that it's the white male Guardsmen who are suspect, which is to say something like nine Guardsmen in ten.

Mass censorship and mass criminalization of the political opposition are well along even before The Party assume total power formally, and the "depersoning" of the opposition already is complete. The Last Elected President is to depart the capital on the morning of Inauguration Day without attending the ceremony or meeting the successor as was the custom of the republic, when it was a republic: the outgoing president cannot concede defeat because manifestly he won a historic landslide, and he cannot congratulate or acknowledge the incoming president who can't make second in a two-man race, even in an establishment poll, for most-admired. Secession is under discussion already, and language like "civil war" is common enough. And the theme of the inauguration: "America united", as if to plop the cherry on top of the fiction, and for all the world to see.