SURVEY:
55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable
The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn’t just coming from the ‘fringe’ left, it’s being ‘normalized’ by the left.
The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn’t just coming from the 'fringe' left, it's being 'normalized' by the left.
thefederalist.com
7 Apr 2025 ~~ By M.D. Kittle
The unhinged left, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and seething hatred for Elon Musk, is trending more violent, according to a new study that finds political violence targeting President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser is “becoming increasingly normalized.”
The report, produced by the
Network of Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in partnership with
Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, finds a broader “assassination culture” appears to be “emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left, with expanding targets now including figures such as Donald Trump.”
Less than a year after
assassination attempts on then-presidential candidate Trump and the literally
explosive violence against Musk’s Tesla electric vehicles, it’s no secret that leftists are ratcheting up violent rhetoric and actions. The more troubling trend is that an “assassination culture” isn’t just coming from the “fringe” left.
“These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” states the report, titled, “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence.”
‘Widespread Justification for Lethal Violence’
NCRI, an independent institution working to “
identify and forecast emerging threats in the era of information disorder,” finds the pattern is building on a broader trend discussed in two
reports in December that analyzed “how viral social media narratives were legitimizing political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the United Healthcare CEO’s assassination.”
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“The findings signal a threat to political stability and public safety,” the reports warns.
Here are some of the troubling numbers, according to the report:
- Murder Justification: 31% and 38% of respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively. (These effects were largely driven by respondents that self-identified as left of center, with 48% and 55% at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, indicating significantly higher justification for violence against these figures.)
- Property Destruction: Nearly 40% of respondents (39.8%) stated it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest.
- Psychological/Ideological Correlations with Assassination Culture: These beliefs are highly correlated with one another, as well as with the justification of the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and hyper-partisan left-wing ideology. (This suggests that support for violence is part of a broader assassination culture, underpinned by psychological and ideological factors.)
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‘Real-World Escalation’
The NCRI report on the growing assassination culture notes support for such political violence on the right, but the prevalence is not nearly as large.
While threats and acts of violence rise on the left, the silence from Democrats in power is deafening. But we’ve seen this movie before. Spoiler Alert: It doesn’t end well for a lot of innocent people. Attorney General Pam Bondi has rightly called the spate of attacks against Tesla
“nothing short of domestic terrorism,” because that’s what it is. Just like the myriad acts of domestic terrorism by the left during the
Black Lives Matter riots at the end of Trump’s first term.
“For the last five years, the
violent left has run rampant with few consequences for the chaos it has sown,” Karol Markowicz recently
wrote in the New York Post.
The NCRI report includes a stark warning.
“Unless political and cultural leadership explicitly confronts and condemns this trend, NCRI assesses a growing probability of real-world escalation,” the report concludes. “Given the current economic volatility and institutional distrust, the online normalization of political violence may increasingly translate into offline action.”
Commentary:
If Neo-Marxist Democrats claim the believe in Democracy, why are they so violent and have the need to be anti-religious, persecute and kill their opposition?
Justice against the Left would be justifiable, long overdue and a way to save the children and grandchildren of good people today from living in a People’s Democracy as in China.
Mob rule followed by an elite group of Neo-Marxist Commies choosing to eliminate their opponents and dissidents.
If this was a survey of conservatives saying it was okay to kill Obama or Biden, the Quisling MSM would spend the next month demanding that Republican officeholders disavow their supporters, while a Democrat majority Congress would have formed Committees investigating Conservatives.
This attitude isn’t coming from “fringe. groups.
This is your average liberal that has become so radicalized that anyone even slightly leaning toward the center is now considered “right wing” today.
But I know I’m preaching to the choir.
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