Political violence in the United States

Pape compares Zohran Mamdani's rapid rise on the left to Trump's, arguing both are propelled by the same existential social-change issues.

“Mamdami, almost exactly the same. What are the key issues they're running on? The key social change issues I'm talking about right here”

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Pape says the deplatforming of Trump and Tucker Carlson failed to reduce the underlying anger, vindicating his focus on social change.

“We did de-platform Trump. We did de-platform Tucker Carlson. And guess what happened, Chris? We did not actually diminish any of those fires”

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Pape attributes roughly half the phenomenon to social change, a quarter to Trump and a quarter to social media and other factors.

“I would say 50% of this is due to the social changes I laid out. 25% is due to President Trump”

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Pape says Russia and China benefit most from American internal division because it consumes US attention.

“without a doubt, it's going to be Russia and China for sure”

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Kelly argued the bullet engravings clearly reveal Robinson's motive.

“Like we have very good evidence of what the motivation was by Tyler Robinson. Very good. It's on the bullets”

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Kelly disputes S. E. Cupp's examples, arguing most were left-wingers attacking left-wingers.

“Again, these are all examples of left wingers attacking left wingers”

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Kelly cites polling to argue that more education correlates with greater support for political violence.

“The more time you spend in the education system, the more likely you are to believe political violence is okay”

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Davis calls for aggressive government action against Antifa, which he describes as a terrorist movement.

“we have not seen Antifa be dragged from their homes, their bank accounts raided, their assets frozen and liquidated, because this is a terrorist movement”

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Davis contends that Kirk's assassination fits an epidemic of transgender-linked terrorist violence rather than foreign conspiracy theories.

“It's that we have an utter epidemic of transgender terroristic violence in this country”

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Davis argues that the threat of assassination falls almost exclusively on conservatives and Christians.

“This seems to be a threat that is completely isolated to those of us on the right”

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Lovett argues that public comfort with killings such as those of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and Charlie Kirk is morally wrong regardless of whether it encourages future violence.

“the comfort that people have right whether it's the shooting of the united healthcare ceo or the the the the the killing of charlie kirk that is morally wrong”

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Lovett argued political violence is an authoritarian act that silences society as a whole, not just its target.

“political violence is wrong. And it's wrong because it doesn't just silence the person that they're trying to kill. It silences the entire society”

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Lovett argued that what unites attackers is a contagious online desire for control and a blaze of glory rather than particular beliefs.

“what unites them is this desire to take control, go out in a blaze of glory. It is a contagious idea online”

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DJ asserts that recent shooters with manifestos, including Crooks, typically lean left.

“they all typically are left leaning, right? This guy Crooks was the same”

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DJ reports that the suspect's manifesto tied Trump to Epstein, echoing narratives pushed by legacy media.

“he was tying Trump to all the Epstein shit, called him a pedophile, a rapist and things like that”

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Warnock criticized Trump for blaming the left after assassination attempts instead of uniting the country.

“this is not a difference between right and left. It's the difference between right and wrong”

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Warnock said he condemned Charlie Kirk's killing on the Senate floor because political violence is incompatible with democracy.

“You cannot have a democracy and political violence. Political violence is the opposite of democracy”

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Hamby argues social media algorithms amplify extreme rhetoric, making it more prevalent on the left than before.

“I just think that it's easier to hear the crazy stuff that the algorithms have poured gasoline on than it ever was”

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Hamby cites CSIS data showing 2025 was the first year left-wing violent incidents and plots outnumbered right-wing ones, while noting the small numbers.

“2025 was the first year ever that left-wing violence and plots and or plots surpassed right-wing violence and or plots”

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Burguiere says right-wing violence occurs and conservatives consistently denounce it, unlike the left's reaction.

“Are there examples of people on the right committing violence? Of course there are. And those are really bad things, and we denounce them every single time they occur”

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Burguiere argues that lionizing perpetrators like Thompson's killer produces copycat violence, citing studies.

“lionizing people who do things like that does bring copycats, does bring more of this crime”

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Williamson summarizes the dynamic as mutual fear of the opposition plus social media amplification producing acceptance of extreme measures on both sides.

“Both sides are increasingly worried about what the opposition is going to do to the future of the country and their ability to reverse the changes to the future of the country”

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Posobiec warned that left-wing assassination culture must be confronted.

“if we don't actually confront this assassination culture, the violent political left that is getting absolutely feral, then they will come for every single one of us”

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Ahmari argues the right should focus on the profile of trans-involved, drug-using radicals rather than conspiracy theories.

“a combination of marijuana use sort of strange sexual attractions and ideology. And so I think that's a more productive area for the right to talk about”

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Holloway attributed Robinson's alleged transformation to the normalization of political violence, particularly on the left.

“was the normalization of of political violence and the violent rhetoric that we hear from so many, particularly on the left”

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