At the outset of 2024, Americans were grim. Heading into a presidential election year, a CBS News survey in January found that only a bare majority — 51 percent — expected the transfer of power from one party to the other to be a peaceful affair. Forty-nine percent thought the year would end in violence.
And there was plenty of violence in 2024. But perhaps because that poll and those who were most troubled by its results were focused on the prospect that we would see a repeat of the January 6 riots, too few acknowledged that the 49 percent were right.
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