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

Trump is a symptom of those changes as much as he is a cause of those changes. matched

And so once you understand the deeper social changes that are occurring, that are leading to this tipping point generation, matched

Now we can see why we're in the era of violent populism and why it's likely to possibly get quite worse over the next five to 10 years. matched

Well, they certainly like to say there is. matched

So I spend a lot of time, Chris, studying political violence on the right and the left. matched

I study the perpetrators of political violence on the right and the left. matched

I study the detailed cases of the three would-be assassins of President Trump. matched

You can look at Luigi Mangione. matched

We can look at the assassin who killed Hortman. matched

She was a key leader in Minnesota, and then also her husband literally assassinated her. matched

And so I spend lots of time doing that because before I did this book, Chris, for 20 years, I studied terrorism. matched

I compiled all the suicide terrorist attacks around the world after 9-11. matched

That's over 8,000 individual cases of suicide attacks. matched

I'm very familiar with studying the individual perpetrators of terrorist attacks, including the most deadly in the world, and also tracking their manifestos, what they say, how much the manifestos reflect personal grievances versus social grievances. matched

And so what you see, and I don't mean to paint a moral equivalence on the right and the left, but in terms of basic operations, how they relate to the mass support of political violence in the country, there's a lot of symmetry. matched

There's a lot of symmetry between the right and the left. matched

The key thing that most people don't know about political violence, matched

is that mass support fundamentally changes the scale of political violence you can expect in a country. matched

And this is happening in the United States, but it's not unique to the United States. matched

It's true in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 80s. matched

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