NEW: Trump's ongoing incitement is feeding into a growing appetite for political violence in America, new research shows motherjones.com/politics/2022/… #January6th #StochasticTerrorism
"12 percent of 'strong' Republicans indicated support for violence to 'return Trump to the presidency this year,' and 17 percent indicated the same to 'stop an election from being stolen.' They were also more likely to agree that 'armed citizens should patrol polling places'" 2/x
Threat assessment experts I spoke with this month told me that that they continue to see alarming levels of political extremism in threat cases, foremost driven by Trump’s rhetoric and the so-called ultra MAGA movement motherjones.com/politics/2022/… 3/x 
"The researchers also asked about 'a situation where you think force or violence is justified to advance an important political objective.' Nearly 15 percent of 'strong' Republicans said it was 'very or extremely likely' that they will be armed with a gun in such a situation" 4/x
A party increasingly consumed with politics of fear and rage nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/… 5/x
Trump of course did not invent demagoguery and incitement, but he has poisoned the GOP with it like no other motherjones.com/politics/2022/… 6/x
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