>>13532688 (me)
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Millions of Americans think the election was stolen. How worried should we be about more violence?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/16/americans-republicans-stolen-election-violence-trump
But that's not all. You're a political pariah, a threat to our democracy, a racist, and an anti-vaxxing maskhole; as such, you should remove yourself from the political process.
INDIRECT suggestions (you) are in the political minority:
>Researchers who have interviewed some of Trump'smost loyal supporters…say that many of them appear to becooling down
>…alarge majority of Americanscondemned the rioters
>Two-thirds of the respondentssaid they believed theelection was legitimate
>Only [31%]said they believed the election had been stolen from Trump
>Trump voters [are] interested in what Biden’s post-pandemic recovery plan might do for them personally
>Arlie Hochschild…found that…even amongdedicated Trump supporters, there had been a“cooling out”
>Hochschild, the author ofStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
>Trump supporters “had felt proud, patriotic, defending democracy, and in a day’s time that had turned around todishonor, criminalization"
>Aminority of Trump supporters…are doubling down on their election fraud beliefs, …expressing paranoia about big government taking over, and feeling “monitored and unsafe”.But the majority has “divested emotion from the issue”of “election fraud”
(You) are a threat to our democracy:
>it’s far from clear how many Americans might still be willing to takeviolent action[over their belief the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump]
>ongoing =="insurrectionist movement" in the US
>risk of violencerelated to Trump's "big lie"
>experts on political violencecautioned…
>handful of attempts byfar-right extremist groupsto mobilize
>researcher who specializes inradicalization
>Extremism expertshave called the 6 January attack an example of“mass radicalization”
>profiles of some previousviolent rightwing extremists
>percentage of Americans who still believed in Trump’s “big lie,” and who also may bewilling to act violentlyas a result
>Robert Pape, a political scientist at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats who specialized inglobal suicide terror attacks, and who pivoted last year to focus onpolitical violence in the United States
>20% of Republicans…sayviolence is at least "a little" justifiedto advance their party's goals
>"…even when they holdviolent views"
>believed the election was stolen from Trump andendorsed violence
>political violencecan have devastating, lasting effects, on both people and on democracies, while being driven by relatively small numbers of people, as long as themajority does not intervene
(You) should feel disheartened and quit voting:
>Trump supporters appeared “angry, but also despondent, feeling powerless anduncertain they will become more involved in politics”
>Trump’s most ardent supporters…[feel] a sense of abandonment at Trump’s behavior
>"[Trump] went away, disappeared into silence. [Trump supporters] feel like: ‘Wait a minute: why isn’t he speaking up for us? Why isn’t he defending us?’”
(You) are a racist:
>Trump voters appeared to be much less threatened by Biden than they were by Obama.
the author interviewed Jhacova Williams:
>a Rand Corporation economist who has studied the after-effects oflynching in the American south
>lynchings were held in public and attracted crowds
Yes, the author even threw in a suggestion that
(You) should do your part:
>the gradual return to more normal life asmore Americans have been vaccinated
All this, and no mention of Antifa or BLM. The amount of gaslighting in this piece of filth article is astounding.