23% of Americans support political violence ahead of the 2024 election, survey shows

politics @lemmy.world – 178 points – 1 years ago

A PRRI survey out Wednesday shows that nearly a quarter of Americans support political violence heading into the 2024 presidential election, as an overwhelming majority believe democracy is at risk.

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Fucking LOL. This cunt felt the need to both sides with an anomaly from 5 years ago.

Everyone knows the party of "we are all domestic terrorists" make up 22 of the 23% who support political violence in this poll.

EDIT: Fascists gonna fash

what we know is that this does fall along party lines in a pretty significant way. Researchers found that one-third of Republicans support violence as a means to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats. And more specifically, Republicans who have favorable views of Trump were found to be nearly three times as likely as Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump to support political violence. They also found that Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump were also three times more likely than those who do not believe the big lie to support political violence in an effort to save the country.

Political violence is political violence in my opinion

"We want to do violence to install a fascist regime" and "we might have to use violence to stop those people from installing a fascist regime" are not the same thing.

In your opinion what might be something that would cause you to use violence in a situation like that? What would it have to look like for you to actually perform a violent act?

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