Trumpâs presidency is ending, but his increasingly violent base will remain By Evan Allen and Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff,Updated January 11, 2021, 11:12 p.m. Email to a Friend Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington. As Congress prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his baseless claims of election fraud.John Minchillo/Associated Press In the days after they returned from the Capitol last week, a North Shore couple mulled secession. Nearby, an Essex County beauty marketing consultant who had been in D.C. resolved to march in every rally and protest she could find. And on right wing social media nationally, the organizing had already begun: more insurrection, more firepower, more stormed capitols.