Should it be surprising that over half of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that assassinating President Donald Trump is justifiable?
That’s what a new study from Rutgers University has found. According to the survey produced by the university’s Social Perception Lab that asked 1,264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence, 55% of all self-identifying “liberals” believe killing the president is a justifiable means of pursuing their political goals. Trump’s highest-profile partner in government, Tesla CEO and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk, is also seen as a justifiable target for assassination by 48% of the same respondents.
This is the fruit of hysteria that Democratic politicians and their allies in the news media have nurtured in their followers for the past eight years. This is a political faction that considers “misgendering” to be “literal violence,” but it is one also building an assassination culture.
The Rutgers poll comes amid a wave of violent attacks against Tesla cars and other property in recent weeks in which arsonists have lit up charging stations and Tesla cars have been shot at, vandalized, and set ablaze. In one particularly disturbing incident, “incendiary devices” were removed by a bomb squad from a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas.