I'll be your Huckleberry. You’re doing the same thing every right wing partisan crank does: take a real problem (political violence), jam it through bad sources, ignore the facts, and pretend it proves your preferred tribe is uniquely violent.
It doesn’t.
1. Political violence is bad. It is also not a “Democrat” phenomenon or even prevelant on the Democrat side
That part is easy: political violence is unacceptable. Full stop.
What doesn’t follow is your claim that this is somehow uniquely a Democratic pathology. It isn’t.
The
last decade alone includes:
- the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
- the El Paso shooter
- the Buffalo shooter
- the Charlottesville murderer
- the January 6 attack on Congress
- the Pelosi hammer attack
- the Whitmer kidnapping plot
- the killing of Mellissa Hortman and her husband
- the arson of Shapiro's home
- the shooting of John Hoffman and his wife
- and sure.... the attempts on Trump
Pretending only one side produces violent extremists is not analysis. It’s propaganda.
2. Your “55% of the left supports murdering Trump” stat is garbage framing.
That number comes from the NCRI “assassination culture” survey - a
non-probability online survey of about 1,200 people, not some gold-standard national sample.
That means:
- it is not a clean representative sample,
- it is highly sensitive to wording,
- and “at least somewhat justified” is doing absurdly heavy lifting.
“Somewhat justified” in a seven-point online rage-click survey is not the same thing as “supports assassination.”
That’s not a defense of the sentiment -
it’s a reminder that you’re laundering a sensational headline into a social fact it does not prove.
If you want to argue political polarization is driving tolerance for violence, fine.
If you want to claim “Democrats support assassination,” that study does not get you there.
3. “Trump has faced more assassination attempts than any president” is unsupported nonsense.
This is just
historically illiterate.
Presidents and presidential candidates have been targeted constantly:
- Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
- James A. Garfield was assassinated
- William McKinley was assassinated
- John F. Kennedy was assassinated
- Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning
- Ronald Reagan was shot
- Harry S. Truman survived an armed attack at Blair House
- Gerald Ford had two attempts in 17 days
- 11-13 attempts on Obama were thwarted
And that’s before you get to foiled plots, cranks, and unstable loners.
Padding Trump’s list with every disturbed person, every crank threat, and every half-formed plot does not make him uniquely persecuted. It means he is a polarizing president in a country with millions of armed lunatics.
That is not the same claim.
4. You are doing collective guilt by slogan.
A murderer yelling “Free Palestine” does not make all Democrats responsible.
By that logic, every right-wing slogan shouted before violence becomes a Republican indictment.
That standard would destroy your own argument immediately.
If a left-wing extremist commits violence, blame the extremist.
If a right-wing extremist commits violence, blame the extremist.
That’s how adults do this.
Not:
That’s tribal brain rot.
5. Your sourcing is bad and your conclusions are worse.
You cite:
- NCRI press-cycle outrage bait
- RealClear aggregation
- AI summaries
- isolated crimes
- then leap to “Democrats reject the sanctity of life”
That’s not evidence. That’s a vibes collage.
You’re not showing that Democrats are uniquely violent.
You’re showing that America is polarized, radicalized, and full of unstable people - and that you only notice it when the violence can be pinned on your political enemies.
That’s not moral clarity. It’s partisan filtering.
6. The REAL problem is broader than your tribal script.
Political violence is rising because:
- trust in institutions is collapsing,
- media ecosystems reward outrage,
- conspiracy is profitable,
- and millions of Americans now treat opponents as existential enemies.
That disease is not confined to one party but one president is pushing it along more than anyone.
And anyone pretending otherwise is part of the problem.