in World News Almost 60 Percent of Leftists Justify Assassinating Trump, Almost 50 Percent Musk
Far-left crackpots on social media have normalized the idea that President Donald Trump and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk should be assassinated.
The frightening news comes from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, which reports that almost 60 percent of leftists polled have no problem with someone murdering Trump. And almost 50 percent have no problem with someone whacking Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has discovered federal bureaucracies riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse.
Leftists, the report from NCRI says, have normalized the advocacy of political violence. Yet the findings are hardly surprising given the hate-Trump rhetoric that has spewed from top Democrat and far-left celebrities for years.
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The Report
NCRI specializes in “cyber-social threat identification and forecasting” and tracks social media to “investigate and identify emerging threats.”
And what it found out about the American Left is what anyone familiar with social media already knows anecdotally. Leftists are becoming increasingly unhinged thanks to Trump Derangement Syndrome and its affiliated mental illness, Musk Derangement Syndrome.
“Political violence targeting Donald Trump and Elon Musk is becoming increasingly normalized,” NCRI reported:
Following the July 13, 2024 attempted assassination of President Trump, tolerance — and even advocacy — for political violence appears to have surged, especially among politically left-leaning segments of the population. This pattern builds on a broader trend NCRI identified in two December 2024 reports which analyzed how viral social media narratives were legitimizing political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination.
Even worse, social media is rife with “widespread justification for lethal violence — including assassination — among younger, highly online” individuals. Meanwhile, “spillover” is even affecting politics, as a ballot measure in California — the “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act” — shows. Mangione faces a federal death sentence if convicted of murdering UnitedHealthCare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.
NCRI’s findings, it avers, “threaten political stability and public safety.”