As scary as this moment is, remember that support for political violence went DOWN after the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump, not up www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
We need to make the same thing happen this time.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump led to widespread concern that the event
would escalate political violence between U.S. partisans. Whil...
www.pnas.org
Careful polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence - see e.g. brightlinewatch.org/tempered-exp..., brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-..., and www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1....
Unfortunately, it only takes one person with a gun to create a tragedy like what've seen today.