Robert Pape

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Modern Wisdom · “This Will Be The Most Violent Election Of Our Lifetime” - Robert Pape #1154 · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

They may not like to accept that. matched

They probably will feel uncomfortable hearing this. matched

But the fact of the matter is that when there is mass support for political violence, this translates into actual political violence. matched

This is true domestically. matched

So if we break out of the American context, we look at Northern Ireland. matched

the Irish Republican Army that conducted decades of terrorism in Northern Ireland. matched

You can see immediately as public support for political violence among Catholics in the fall of 1969, we actually have the opinion poll data here, matched

As it actually grows, that's what gives birth to the IRA. matched

It's not the other way around. matched

It's the IRA is responding to the public support for political bonds. matched

Coming back to the American case in the 1960s, we have the Weather Underground, which is a matched

group of anti-war protesters from the 1960s who break off and then they form literally a terrorist group, an American terrorist group, and conduct over 20 bombings to protest with the bombings, they thought of it as protests, the Vietnam War. matched

Well, they too are responding to what they perceive as this huge amount of community support. matched

And how do we know that? matched

They wrote books about it. matched

They detail it. matched

They explain this. matched

They explain how, in fact, one of the things that as the weather underground evolves over time, matched

is after they do about 20 or so of the bombings, they start to write that they're just surprised there's not more falling in their wake. matched

They thought there was going to be much more support for their actual violence. matched

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