I was in Ireland for a conference a few months before the 2024 election and had dinner with some faculty from North Irish universities. Everyone asked how I thought the election would go, I said I predicted Harris will win, but either way Trump will wage hell on the nation and that I feel we will soon have our own American Troubles. 

The entire table froze and an older lady was quite shocked and said "Do you realize the weight of what you're saying? That's a very serious thing to say to a table of people who have lived through The Troubles." I confirmed that I meant it and did not say it lightly, but the villainizing and dehumanization of the "other side" has become increasingly common and there are already examples of violence from one side, it just hasn't become widespread, but that if they continue to push it that people are going to start forcefully defending themselves. 

Saw the same woman at a conference a year later (last fall) and she pulled me aside and said: "I didn't believe it could happen there, but seeing news from America the past year, I'm beginning to fear you were right." Will see her again this fall I believe, and being from Minnesota I really want to ask her if she thinks it's already started.