Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

‘Assassination Culture’: Poll Shows About Half Of Liberals Believe Killing Trump, Musk Justified
The Daily Caller ^ | April 8, 2025 | Hudson Crozier

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: assassination; demonicrats; hate; intercession; prolife; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last
Dear Secret Service

Please protect my President.

Thank you.

A FReeper.

1 posted on 04/08/2025 10:21:09 AM PDT by Morgana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: No name given ; SaveFerris; All

While we are at it....

Dear God,

Please protect our President from these crazies.

Amen.


2 posted on 04/08/2025 10:22:28 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Video game culture.


3 posted on 04/08/2025 10:24:16 AM PDT by TheGunny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TheGunny

I figure you are correct. They are stupid and don’t know games from reality.


4 posted on 04/08/2025 10:27:38 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Morgana
(Dear God,

Please protect our President from these crazies.

Amen.)

(blessed be the prayer warriors)

✝️✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐🛐




5 posted on 04/08/2025 10:29:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

We need to consult with President Nayib Bukele on how to deal with these creeps.


6 posted on 04/08/2025 10:30:02 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TheGunny

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.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 10:34:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309562/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309448/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309470/posts

😊👍


8 posted on 04/08/2025 10:34:46 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

What if we said Kill them all and let God sort them out.


9 posted on 04/08/2025 10:35:33 AM PDT by algore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Democracy is mob rule. Democrats, democratic, democracy all are mob mindset.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 10:35:37 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

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.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 10:36:13 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

And there are people who do not believe we are in the end times! 2033 is my bet.


12 posted on 04/08/2025 10:36:53 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

It reveals the true hidden mindset of the totalitarian where the primary feature is death.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 10:36:54 AM PDT by iontheball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman; All

We need all the stories on this we can get posted! The more FReepers praying for Trump the better!


14 posted on 04/08/2025 10:37:05 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

Yup! Butt, remember when conservatives plotted against the last regime? Yeah, me neither.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 10:39:18 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

So, according to the do unto others rule, they support liberal mass genocide.


16 posted on 04/08/2025 10:39:45 AM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

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.


17 posted on 04/08/2025 10:42:42 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Morgana

https://x.com/Awesome_Jew_/status/1909640110011723813

Hamas supporters are trashed in NY


18 posted on 04/08/2025 10:44:44 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Plotted to vote them out?


19 posted on 04/08/2025 10:48:41 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: TheGunny

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.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 10:53:13 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson