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

So if I had to put numbers on it, I would say 50% of this is due to the social changes I laid out. matched

25% is due to President Trump. matched

And 25% is due to social media and other factors that I would just lump in another group of things. matched

So, which is probably the exact reverse of what most people want to hear. matched

Because if you are anti-Trump or pro-Trump, you would like to focus on Trump. matched

You see what I mean? matched

So it doesn't really matter whether you're anti or pro. matched

We see this in our focus groups. matched

People love to either love Trump or hate Trump. matched

And so they like to exaggerate, I believe, Trump's influence. matched

Other people, though, focus on things like social media a lot of times because they have kids, and we saw this in our focus groups as well. matched

They have kids and they're worried about, it's not so much they think about their own consumption of social media, they worry about their kids. matched

So they, I think, put a little bit too much weight on that. matched

What I think is missing here for most people is the powerful influence of social changes in driving political violence. matched

And why is that so important to me? matched

It's because if you want to know why has Lebanon had civil wars for decades and decades, this is rooted in social changes. matched

This isn't because of a certain leader of Hezbollah or not because they've been killed so often. matched

They don't have that much stability of the leaders of Hezbollah. matched

It's not because of the, it's because of the deep demographic problems. matched

What are some of the big issues going on inside of Israel? matched

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