Here we go again.

It has only been three days since the election but already left-wing activists have started to organize their first anti-Trump march for the weekend before the inauguration. All of the usual suspects are involved.

The demonstration, dubbed the “People’s March on Washington,” is scheduled for Jan. 18, two days before the inauguration. It is being organized by leading civil rights, racial justice and reproductive health organizations, including the Women’s March and Abortion Access Now, a coalition of organizations including the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the National Women’s Law Center.

Organizers estimate 50,000 people will attend, according to a permit application.

Organizers have already made it clear this is about creating a "blue wave" in 2026:

“We are having a march in order to continue to fight for our freedom, our families, our futures, and to also make sure that it’s clear in the face of rising authoritarianism that we will not preemptively give up,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, the executive director of the Women’s March, adding that sister marches are planned across the country.

Already, O’Leary Carmona said, organizers are thinking toward the 2026 midterm elections and ways to usher in a blue wave.

We've seen all of this before. Remember DisruptJ20? That was the plan to physically disrupt Trump's inauguration in 2016. First they attempted to block various checkpoints around the city and scuffled with Trump supporters and police. When that failed, a large group of black bloc goons ran through the city breaking windows and setting fires. Here’s a bit of what that looked like.

Someone set the limo on fire. pic.twitter.com/y4AFr5HNjk

— Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 (@mattdpearce) January 20, 2017

They can start their community service by cleaning up the mess that their friends made. @lacymacauley #DisruptJ20 pic.twitter.com/6wWWWqu8TQ

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 3, 2017

At least 200 people were arrested in connection with this and several police officers were injured. DisruptJ20 might have been worse if James O'Keefe hadn't infiltrated the group and uncovered some of their plans in advance.

WATCH: #DisruptJ20 groups describe plot to deploy butyric acid and sprinklers set-offs to disrupt the #inaugurationpic.twitter.com/HXIq0bQqv4

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 16, 2017

That was all on the day of the inauguration. But the day after, January 21, 2017, was when the Women's March took place around the country. So it looks like this time around we're getting the march on the Saturday before the inauguration. I don't see any plans for a new version of DisruptJ20 yet but it could happen.

Of course people have the right to protest but after the election we just had in which Trump not only won the electoral college but also appears to have won the popular vote, with nearly every county in the country moving to the right, these groups can't claim they represent the majority this time. But they are clearly hoping for a repeat of 2017.

And realistically, I think they'll get their chance. If Trump goes through with his deportation plan, it will be unpopular and the media will be 100% on the left's side. If he puts big tariffs in place, those will inevitably raise prices and that will be unpopular and the media will be 100% on the left's side. So the kind of resistance/media conflict we all saw in 2017 is inevitable in 2025. Bill Kirstol is already calling for it at the Bulwark.

Trump has won. The Trumpist planning to deploy the federal government on behalf of America First policies abroad and the Project 2025 agenda at home is underway. The efforts to change, even transform, our governing institutions and many others are about to begin.

And so the planning for it has to begin. And not just the planning. The actual organizing, the actual accountability, the actual pushback has to begin as well, even before all the conferences have concluded and the analyses have been agreed upon.

Newly elected presidents who’ve won convincing victories have momentum. But that momentum can also be stalled, blunted, blocked, limited, checked. Even reversed.

Tom Nichols wrote something similar at the Atlantic.

Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court, in Congress, in statehouses around the nation, and in the public arena. America is a federal republic, and the states—at least those in the union that will still care about democracy—have ways to protect their citizens from a rogue president. Nothing is inevitable, and democracy will not fall overnight.

Do not misunderstand me. I am not counseling complacency: Trump’s reelection is a national emergency. If we have learned anything from the past several years, it’s that feel-good, performative politics can’t win elections, but if there was ever a time to exercise the American right of free assembly, it is now

They lost at the ballot box but they can still fight in the streets, in the courts and from their perches at America's left-wing media outlets. That last week before the election was full of manufactured outrage about a comedian's joke, about Liz Cheney, about fascism. At the time it seemed like last minute Democratic desperation, but it's probably more realistic to see it as a preview of the next four years. The media did very well for itself attacking Trump during his first term. They are going to be looking for another payday now using whatever outrage they can gin up on a daily basis. It's going to be exhausting because for the next two years that's really all they have to work with.

It is 1933. Hitler is in power. No time for a fucking seminar on Democrats messaging errors

— Jen Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) November 8, 2024

What probably won't be present this time around is the bogus Steele dossier and the media/Democrat driven "collusion" scandal which lent an air of impending doom to Trump's first two years in office. But don't assume Hillary's fixers or progressive attorney generals can't come up with something new to fit the bill. The plan is to take Trump down ASAP and they will all do their best.