Posted on 07/26/2024 12:58:18 PM PDT by algore
Most Americans were glad that Donald Trump dodged a bullet at the fateful rally in Pennsylvania.
But not everyone was pleased that 20-year-old assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was such a bad shot.
Until now, many assumed that only a few bad apples wanted the Republican candidate to take a round to the head.
Not so, says alarming new research from a UK-based academic.
Eric Kaufmann says a shocking third of Democratic voters wished Trump had left his July 13 campaign event in a body bag.
Among progressives, the figure is much higher, says the University of Buckingham politics scholar.
A staggering 71 percent of hard-line lefties said they supported the attempt on Trump's life.
Kaufmann said his results could be explained by 'woke moral absolutism.'
'Identity politics has moralized the outlook of the Left, painting conservatives as evil rather than wrong,' he says.
Kaufmann carried out his snap poll of a few hundred people five days after the attack, in which Crooks killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and injured two others, including Trump.
In the hours that followed, several high-profile liberals voiced support for the assassin, who was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.
This comes down to a growing 'partisan asymmetry' in America, he says.
'The Left is more prejudiced against the Right than vice versa,' he adds.
Lefties are more likely to unfriend, refuse to date or otherwise discriminate against conservatives than the other way round, his research shows.
The respondents who backed Trump's assassination bid also had other hard-line feelings against the GOP.
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BS
Speak for yourself, nut!
Crooks (or whomever) wasn't that bad of a shot.
God intervened.
Demonic possession.
We have to stop excusing this kind of evil as *mental illness*.
It’s not.
Your comment doesn't make sense.
Did you ask them something?
The 'true pandemic':
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