Robert Pape

But if you're in the top 1%, you are gaining enormous wealth from the country.

And it's coming out of the entire bottom 90% pretty much evenly at the different quintiles.

And so what that means is

As political power is changing with the changing demographics, both the Republican side and the Democratic side, because they're the bottom 90 percent, they really see their economic prospects could be clobbered even more.

And part of the big reason for this is nobody's solving politics.

The shift of wealth to the top 1%, neither party has taken that on, and that is an additional fuel to the bipartisan nature of the rise of political violence.

That's exactly right.

Now, another way to put it is we often think of the support for political violence among the losers of society, those marginal people that have little to lose.

So they take a fling at political violence somehow.

This is not the case in our surveys.

What you're seeing is large numbers of educated people, large numbers of middle class people, large numbers of upper middle class on both sides are supporting political violence because they're the haves and they're worried they're going to lose even more in the future.

And this is different.

That's right.

The key fear that we found was the fear of political exclusion, where as they became a minority, they couldn't get their grievances, they couldn't get their interests through politics.

And by the way, this is happening on both sides.

And you see that there is real concern that with President Trump as now the president, and he himself is talking about seizing voting machines now, what that is, is creating the fear of lockout among Democrats.

Once you're in the transitional 20-year period, both sides can fear political lockout

And then they're going to fight even harder because this means this may be their last chance before it's irreversible.

That's right.

Again, I want to be careful and not paint all Republicans in this picture and all Democrats, but again, it's tens of millions of Republicans and tens of millions of Democrats, so it's not a tiny number.