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30 MILLION Americans say violence is justified to keep Trump from power: UChicago study
The Postmillennial ^ | August 14th, 2023 | unattributed

Posted on 08/16/2023 4:14:53 PM PDT by shadowlands1960

A UChicago professor said "the public is more radicalized," and that "it’s really quite significant."

A new survey commissioned by the University of Chicago found that a stunning 30 million American adults say they believe the use of violence is okay if that is what it takes to stop former President Trump from assuming the White House once again.

The study found that 11.6 percent of US adults agree that a “use of force” is permissible to “Prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.” This amounts to around 30 million people. A total of 3,543 US adults were polled for the survey in June 2023, with a reported margin of error of two to three percentage points.

University of Chicago professor Robert Pape, who led the research, said that while he believes recent indictments against former President Trump have created “radicalization,” there is also “growing anger and radicalization on the left as well.”

“The public is more radicalized than it was in April and it’s really quite significant,” said Pape. “We’ve been tracking this quite a while, and this is a really big bump.”

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To: vpintheak

Like those millions who wait to see Bydone at rallies? HAHAHA


21 posted on 08/16/2023 4:32:06 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: TLI

Don’t need to drag their fat a**** out. All they have to do is put the word out to those millions of illegal aliens and call the inner city yutes who’ve been getting government hand outs for years and years and say :Hey, it’s time to pay back...
Take out the white guys!”


22 posted on 08/16/2023 4:32:16 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Boardwalk

He’s such a Daddy Warbucks, I’d imagine him paying off student debt before Biden.


23 posted on 08/16/2023 4:33:40 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Osage Orange

The question was, “ You did vote Democrat, right?


24 posted on 08/16/2023 4:34:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: shadowlands1960
Nah. Trump does not speak for me.

Go DeSantis!

25 posted on 08/16/2023 4:34:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: blueunicorn6

So if trump wins, will 30 million be arrested for insurrection.


26 posted on 08/16/2023 4:35:02 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: shadowlands1960
A new survey commissioned by the University of Chicago...

30 million baby Al Capones? But don't dare call it mob justice...

-PJ

27 posted on 08/16/2023 4:37:03 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: midwest_hiker
So if trump wins, will 30 million be arrested for insurrection.

Knock yourself out. Not everyone is in Trump's cult.

I don't want to see the guy arrested. But he's a terrible spokesman for our movement. Time to get rid of him.

DeSantis is young and energetic. He's only 44 years old.

28 posted on 08/16/2023 4:37:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: shadowlands1960

Most of these “youths” at the universities are “Pajama Boys”...


29 posted on 08/16/2023 4:41:13 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Vermont Lt
As I wrote elsewhere, there is a popular theoretical question - "would you have killed Hitler in the 30s if you knew what was to come?" Many people answer "yes."

True, we haven't perfected time travel. But then 2020 came along.

I believe many on the left feel the same way about Trump. Maybe not so much that he’s Hitler2 (though some obviously think so), but in a narcissistic “how will history view ME if I don’t do something about the bad orange man?’ Lacking a time machine, the 2020-equivalent question was "would you steal the election by whatever means, to remove Trump from office? Because, ya know, he's Hitler or something like that."

We are seeing their "yes" right now.

I bet most Bidet supporters sure as heck see lots of problems and believe that the election was fraudulent, and it is very likely that Trump won by a mile. But, because Orange Man Bad, these Guardians of Civilization grip onto whatever half-baked rationale for the "legitimacy" of the results, to keep the inquiry into irregularities stopped. Then, they crank up the volume to 11 on these Jan 6 "hearings", because they feel morally justified.

2020 was a de facto going back in time to kill Hitler. Clarence Thomas got it right, when he wrote about the protests (threats?) from the Roe leak: "We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like."

This new dogma - "anything goes if we are morally justified" is an extension of this article:

.... What (liberals) really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.

...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road

31 posted on 08/16/2023 4:46:55 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: shadowlands1960

I’m going to have to call bullshit on this one.


32 posted on 08/16/2023 4:47:12 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: blueunicorn6

They should have kept Brandon from office.


33 posted on 08/16/2023 4:48:50 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

>>”I don’t want to see the guy arrested. But he’s a terrible spokesman for our movement. Time to get rid of him.

No, he’s actually a great spokesman for our movement. He’s just not a great spokesman for your movement.

>>”DeSantis is young and energetic.”

So is AOC. And yet neither one has half the energy of Trump.


34 posted on 08/16/2023 4:50:09 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: DoodleBob

Excellent summary. That is exactly how they frame it in their heads. They aren’t responding to actualities but to phantoms that have been planted in their minds.


35 posted on 08/16/2023 4:51:01 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Buckle in folks. We are going to have a daily barrage of crap about PDJT over the next several months. They are absolutely scared shitless over the possibility of him being re-elected again. They are going to do everything in their power to prevent that from happening. It’s going to get really ugly.


36 posted on 08/16/2023 4:52:48 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: shadowlands1960
The study found that 11.6 percent of US adults
This amounts to around 30 million people.

US Population= 320 million (adults & children)
Adult population (est): 160 million
11.6% of adults = 17 million

That's still a lot of communists in America who vote

38 posted on 08/16/2023 4:56:44 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: shadowlands1960
That's more like it. Out in the open and threatening violence to get their way. Much more simple than the BS cheating, lying and coverup agenda.

Let's settle our differences with War. It is the most expedient and pragmatic method to correct the current state of affairs, and is the only way to stop tyranny.

39 posted on 08/16/2023 4:57:31 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: shadowlands1960

careful what you wish for there suckhole... (+)


40 posted on 08/16/2023 4:58:06 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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