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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
And we're well past the point where conservatives need to get serious about the extent of this threat.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
And to do that, we need to be honest about why all the hoax theories are circulating on social media right now among both conservatives and leftists.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
For the most part, for most people, it's a lot more palatable to believe that these assassinations are staged than to confront the truth, which is that, indeed, a large percentage of this country's population has been radicalized.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
If you're a conservative, they want you dead.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
I mean, that could very well include your next-door neighbor or your doctor, your Uber driver, the person serving you food at a restaurant.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
Take a look at this data point.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
According to a poll by YouGov and The Economist, 25% of people who describe themselves as very liberal and 17% of people who describe themselves as liberal believe that violence can sometimes be necessary to achieve political goals.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
So basically, one in five Democrat voters at a minimum believe that political violence is acceptable.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
Less than 9% of conservatives, including people who describe themselves as very conservative, held the same position in this poll.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
So like we said, this is not a both sides thing.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
In other words, leftists are more than twice as likely to admit openly to a pollster that they support political violence.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
And you factor in all the ones who feel that way but don't want to admit it to somebody, and what do you end up with?
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
I don't know, but it's a lot of people.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
That's why Jimmy Kimmel is still on the air.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
The executives of ABC know that he has a reliable audience, albeit a relatively small one.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
Millions of Americans want to see someone lie about the deaths of conservatives and encourage more assassinations.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
That's what Kimmel did after Charlie Kirk's murder, and it's what he did just two days prior to the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
Watch.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
Throughout all of American history until very recently, most people would be repulsed by something like that.
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Ep. 1769 - Trump’s Faced SIX Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming for You
It's crass.