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The Left Has a Political Violence Problem

They say politics can be murder. For a disturbing number of Americans on the Left, that seems to be an adage taken literally.

A new poll from the progressive Center for Strategic Politics indicates just how far some Democrat voters are willing to go to see President Donald Trump removed from power. Or, as the pollsters somewhat mutedly put it, “Democrats want Trump out by (almost) any means necessary.”

The survey of 683 Democrat voters found overwhelming positive reactions to Trump being impeached and convicted or removed under the 25th Amendment, at 87% and 84%, respectively. Far more troublingly, 59% said they would react positively if military leaders removed Trump and assumed control of the government, while 55% said the same if he simply died in his sleep.

The only means of removal that didn’t receive a plurality of Democratic support is an assassination, though nearly one-third of Democrats would react positively to the news Trump had been killed at a rally.

Apparently protecting democracy now includes the occasional military junta.

The CSP findings also echo disturbing polling released more than a year earlier by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University. In April 2025, researchers found that 55.2% of respondents who identified as left of center said murdering Trump would be at least somewhat justified. Nearly 49% said the same about Elon Musk, while roughly 58% said destroying a Tesla........

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