No. of Recommendations: 9
“The New Poll That Proves Liberals Are Growing Dangerously Comfortable With Political Violence”Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about that poll. At least, no more than you worried about the polls when they showed the reverse:
One-third of Republicans (33%) today believe that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats. Those percentages have increased since 2021, when 28% of Republicans and 7% of Democrats held this belief. Republicans who have favorable views of Trump (41%) are nearly three times as likely as Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump (16%) to agree that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country.
Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump are more than three times as likely as those who do not believe that the election was stolen from Trump — 46% to 13%, respectively — to agree that true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country.https://prri.org/research/threats-to-american-demo...Because these polls are mostly just measuring how people
respond to questions about political violence. When one "side" has most prominently engaged in political violence, and is thus more portrayed/perceived as being associated with political violence in that moment, then the respondents from the other "side" are far more likely to condemn it, and the folks from that same "side" are more likely to say it's not that bad or sometimes necessary. So in the aftermath of January 6th, Republicans were 4x more likely to believe that "true patriots" might have to resort to violence to save the country (28% to 7%) - because there's a lot of motivated responsiveness there.
Don't worry - once there are significant acts of political violence by people who are coded as being on the right, rather than the left, those numbers will reverse again.
