Robert Pape

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892 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 4d ago

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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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