Friday, September 12, 2025

Assisination Culture

 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell-study-reveals-assassination-culture-spreading-left-under-president-trump

 When over 50% of a "mainstream" political party say that it is acceptable to kill the sitting president, and the minority stays silent, then that party should lose whatever legitimacy they might have had.  


Multivariate regression analysis reveals that far-left ideology, the use of BlueSky and a sense of powerlessness (external locus of control) are the leading predictors of support for political violence. The chart breaks down which psychological and demographic traits most strongly align with justifying the murder of Musk and Trump or attacks on Tesla dealerships.



https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-7-25-ncri-assassination-culture-brief/


Bar chart

5 comments:

Marshal Art said...

I'm sure the silent percentage abhors the violence, "because of course they do!".

Do you have a similar polling of right-wingers on the subject of killing presidents? I'm guessing the results would be starkly different.

Craig said...

The silent percentage would say that they abhor the violence, yet probably stayed silent while cities burned or were taken over during 2020.

I didn't dig into the poll, but the Fox piece linked should have a link to the poll. Or the name of the poll.

Craig said...

I posted the link to the poll itself.

Marshal Art said...

I'll give it another look. I'm supposed to be productive today.

Craig said...

No problem, I am too and didn't have a ton of time.