Robert Pape
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first heard Sep 2026
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The number one threat to America is not from a foreign government, even Iran.
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It's not from a fringe militia group.
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It's from tens of millions of Americans who support political violence.
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Once you have support for political violence lodged in the mainstream of society, this changes everything.
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era of political violence?
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It's a new era.
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It's an era I call violent populism because I want to explain that we have had almost every year since the founding of our country, 250 years, some type of political violence, some type of militia group, an assassination attempt here or there.
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That's not what we are living through now.
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This is a new paradigm.
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This is a different world.
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Now, it has happened a few times before.
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I'm sure we'll talk about this in the 1920s, the 1960s.
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But as for almost everybody listening to this show, we are in an era.
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of historically high political violence and historically high support for political violence that will change the election that we are about to go through in ways we may not really be prepared for.
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Civil War, 1860, let's just remind ourselves that that is a long time ago, 180
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Well,
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maybe
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just the other day.
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But for Americans, that is a long time ago.
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In the 1960s, we need to recall that that was over 65 years ago.
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