Posted on 04/08/2025 10:21:09 AM PDT by Morgana
A new survey finds an “assassination culture” growing on the American left since the attempted killing of President Donald Trump in July 2024.
Data released Monday from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found “48% and 55%” of “left of center” people “at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.” The findings come after a historically violent election season in 2024, which saw two assassination attempts on Trump in July and September.
“These attitudes are not fringe—they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the NCRI wrote. The group produced its study with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab and surveyed 1264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence.
When surveying all respondents, only 38% said killing Trump would be “at least somewhat justified,” meaning there was “significantly higher justification” among self-identified liberals specifically, the NCRI said.
The group also found that 39% of U.S. residents think “it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest” of Musk, who now leads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) but is also Tesla’s CEO.
The NCRI’s work adds to other data from July by United Kingdom-based researcher Eric Kaufman showing that a third of Democrats say they wish the first attempt on Trump’s life had succeeded in killing him. The first known assassination attempt against Trump nearly killed the president at a Pennsylvania campaign rally as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him in the ear, barely missing his head, and killed an attendee.
The NCRI said online platforms such as BlueSky “play a strong predictive role in amplifying” the culture of violence on the left. “In these ecosystems, violence is not just justified — it is stylized, gamified, and embedded within a broader ideological narrative,” the organization said.
Please protect my President.
Thank you.
A FReeper.
While we are at it....
Dear God,
Please protect our President from these crazies.
Amen.
Video game culture.
I figure you are correct. They are stupid and don’t know games from reality.
We need to consult with President Nayib Bukele on how to deal with these creeps.
Half of the leftist justify killing Trump and Musk.
How would they like it if all of us believed in that being done to them someday?
I know our side does NOT believe that.
Nonviolent people (Shakers, Ghandi supporters, Jews in Europe as WWII was getting underway) are always taken advantage of by the enemy.
More here:
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309470/posts
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What if we said Kill them all and let God sort them out.
Democracy is mob rule. Democrats, democratic, democracy all are mob mindset.
These idiots have no idea the #x$2 storm they would start if they tried again or succeeded. They are easily identifiable and last I heard don’t have the millions of 2nd amendment toys patriots own.
And there are people who do not believe we are in the end times! 2033 is my bet.
It reveals the true hidden mindset of the totalitarian where the primary feature is death.
We need all the stories on this we can get posted! The more FReepers praying for Trump the better!
Yup! Butt, remember when conservatives plotted against the last regime? Yeah, me neither.
So, according to the do unto others rule, they support liberal mass genocide.
I happened to be around a group of liberals the day Trump got shot. They couldn’t hide their grins when they were hoping he was dead.
Plotted to vote them out?
Yup. Also what happens when you keep calling someone “literally Hitler” — gullible idiots living with bottled up anger and frustration at life in general will glom onto that. Too large a segment of our population is truly sick and off the rails.
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