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Victor Davis Hanson Issues Warning Over Liberal Rhetoric, Support For Violence (Video)

It is 'building an assassination culture'

It was only days ago that the Washington Examiner editorialized about the affinity Democrats have for violence.

Really bad violence.

The report noted more than half of Americans who “identify as ‘left of center'” think 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.”

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The Examiner explained, “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 attitude really isn’t that new. Fox News reported months ago that Democrats’ violent rhetoric was exploding.

That conclusion followed two assassination attempts against Trump during his campaign in 2024, including one in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a bullet nicked his ear.

Trump has said he thinks God allowed him to escape that assassination attempt so that he could be president and help America.

That violent rhetoric included comments from both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that Trump is a “threat” to democracy.

One Democrat, Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat, said Trump is so dangerous he “has to be eliminated,” and then quickly apologized.

Now those circumstances have drawn from Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a warning about what result the circumstances could produce:

He said, “So, they are lowering the bar on what’s permissible. And we’re going to see something like we saw with these two assassin[ation] [attempts]. I don’t want to predict it; I hope it never happens.”

He added, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, “But if they keep this language up and you start to see polls that say 50% of self-identified leftists think it’s okay to shoot, and you see them romanticizing a assassin [allegedly] like [Luigi] Mangione, and you see them go fund an alleged murderer like Karmelo Anthony and basically saying that he was a victim and you see this [alleged] MS-13 wife beater who was pulled over for trafficking and let go and was found — yes, everybody, he was found by a immigration judge to have MS-13 ties. Even his wife did not deny it. She didn’t deny that she was beaten by him either.”

He explained the result is a growing risk of more assassination attempts against the president.

In light of the Democrats’ popularity being assessed as low as 27%, he said, there will be a desperation.

“I’m just watching this and I see that the more impotent they are and the less actual power they wield, and the less the public likes them — if you look at the polls of the Democratic Party, 29%, 27%, one poll I think was 23% approval — they react to that by being crazier and more strident and upping the, you know, not just ‘fascist,’ but the other day [Democratic Texas Rep.] Jasmine Crockett said that Trump was like worse than the MS-13 gang member, you know.”

In fact, Crockett claimed she believed alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “less criminal” than Trump, the report explained.

Hanson said being created is a “climate of fear and legitimizing violence and something’s going to happen.”

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