Miranda Devine: The left’s assassination fixation only further normalizes political violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : YouTube let the video rip despite a policy strictly prohibiting content showing how to make firearms, ammunition or gun accessories.
48% : After two assassination attempts on Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign; when Mangione became a cult heartthrob; Musk had to travel with up to 20 armed bodyguards; and even former FBI Director James Comey flirts with assassination memes, we can see where this is heading.
43% : It is a psychological conditioning of the public to normalize political violence.
42% : If you can’t rub out Trump yourself, then you can make your feelings plain in oblique fashion by fetishizing Mangione as a sex symbol.
29% : He brought up the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pa., surmising that unknown forces or the hive mind might have guided the 20-year-old shooter.
27% : Rutgers University’s Network Contagion Research Institute has warned of “a structured endorsement of political violence targeting figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
27% : It found that 38% of Americans — and 55% of those identifying as left of center — said assassinating President Trump would be “at least somewhat justified”; 31% (and 48% of those left of center), said the same about Musk.
24% : In a report last month, “Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence,” the institute found “disturbingly high levels of support for political violence, particularly targeting President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.”

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