“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” Trump said in his speech. He has repeated those themes throughout the last eight years. “It was a very jarring moment,” King said.

It is also a far different Washington from four years ago, when the stage built for Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration had to be hastily repaired after an insurrection of Trumps

The weekend’s pre-inaugural balls and parties reflected the exuberance of an ascendant MAGA movement—and the factional dissent already emerging.

For Washington’s heavily Democratic congressional delegation, Monday was a complicated day. On one hand, they applauded the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Joe Biden to Donald Trump. On the other,