We don’t yet know what the actual inauguration will look like, but January 6 has no major protests scheduled, and there haven’t even been any serious efforts to contest the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

I’m sure that some noise will be made by the usual suspects inside Congress, but largely the Dems have been badly shaken and they haven’t, at least at the moment, settled on a strategy and are not contesting the election on any other grounds than Trump’s ‘illegitimacy’ due to the manufactured charges against him.

But nonetheless, D.C. is being locked down and maximum security is being deployed around the Electoral College certification.

Why?

One answer is that the Biden administration, still expecting to win, preemptively declared it a National Special Security Event and assumed that the security would be used to stop pro-Trump protesters.

The National Special Security Event is here but there’s no one to secure it against.

Still much the same was true of January 20, 2020, with a mass deployment of troops from around the country, who had nothing to do except sleep in D.C. garages. But the purpose of that was a show of force.

To some degree, this may be true now as well.

Finally, the unnecessary security also provides the media with a pretext for resuming its endless discourse about J6 even though most Dems, including James Carville, have admitted that Americans don’t care.