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

And then they're disappointed that there's not as much coming as they were expecting. matched

So you can see in their calculations, their thinking, that support for political violence animating them. matched

And one of the reasons they just go out of business on their own is, of course, the Vietnam War ends. matched

But also, they just come to see that there just weren't many takers for that violence. matched

That didn't stop, though, 20 instances of matched

it's starting in other mature democracies. matched

So it hasn't gotten as much traction in other democracies. matched

And I don't mean other immature democracies. matched

So when we study political violence around the world, we're used to studying political violence in, say, authoritarian countries or countries that were a democracy for a few years. matched

They kind of transitioned from authoritarianism to democracy, and then they slid back. matched

That's the usual group of countries that we used to think about political violence in. matched

When I'm answering your question, I'm talking about Canada, I'm talking about Germany, I'm talking about Britain, I'm talking about France, just to be very, very clear. matched

And what we saw are the beginnings of this in other countries. matched

In Germany, for example, we saw around the time just before we had January 6th in our country, there was a similar storming of the Reichstag in Berlin. matched

Many Americans don't even know about that because they just weren't focused on Germany. matched

Well, the Germans were. matched

And when I was conducting this research, the chancellor of Germany in September 2022 flew me to Berlin for an entire week in the chancellery meeting with every single top leader of the CDU, his party, and also that's like the defense minister. matched

I mean, every single top person, multiple times, by the way, matched

and then also leaders of other parties as well. matched

For example, I went to the parliament to meet with the Green Party for long sessions as well to go through all of the detailed analysis here. matched

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