- The democrats will attempt to loudly condemn the violence. The more the republicans will blame them for it, the louder they will proclaim it. They will make conciliatory gestures. It will be comically absurd and ineffective.

- They will also grapple with the fact that many would prefer Trump dead and whether these feelings (and expressing them) is moral. The only correct way out is to recognise that Trump's death would help everyone except him, but this doesn't invalidate his right to safety.