OPINION:
A new study from the University of Chicago that was reported by Breitbart found the number of Democrats who were willing to use force as a tool of political persuasion grew between January and June of this year from 9% to 17%.
That’s hardly a shock. Democrats do love their violence. Word is, they’re petitioning to make Molotov cocktail throwing an Olympic sport. Points for accuracy; tie goes to the rapid-fire bonus round.
“Public support for the use of force to coerce members of the US Congress grew from 9 percent in January 2023 to 17 percent as of June 26, 2023, effectively doubling,” researchers wrote in their “Dangers to Democracy: Tracking Deep Distrust of Democratic Institutions, Conspiracy Beliefs and Support for Political Violence Among Americans,” a study from the Chicago Project on Security & Threats.
And as much as authors tried to focus attention on Donald Trump and his supposed power to incite violence — suggesting a rise from 4.5% to 7% of MAGA-types who would use force to restore his presidency was far more than a measly amount — the real story, the real findings, the real truths were this: The rise in the embrace of violence for political gain “was sharpest among Democrats.” In June, 2½ times more Democrats expressed acceptance for violence than in January.
With Republicans holding control of the House, what’s it going to be by year’s end?
Democrats have always wrapped their political messages with rage and calls for angry action.
“If you see anybody from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Rep. Maxine Waters screamed in 2018.
And who can forget Sen. Chuck Schumer’s fireball of fury at two U.S. Supreme Court justices, in the throes of deciding a key abortion case?
“I want to tell you [Neil] Gorsuch. I want to tell you [Brett] Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” Schumer said in March 2020.
Then there’s that whole Black Lives Matter-meets-Hands-Up-Don’t-Shoot-meets-Antifa movement.
“In many cases, violent or destructive demonstrations have specifically targeted statues seen to represent th[is] country’s legacy of racist violence, such as monuments celebrating colonial figures, slave owners and Confederate leaders,” the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) wrote in its “Demonstrations and Police Violence in America” study for the summer of 2020. The ACLED, a nonprofit, highlighted the nation’s risk for political violence, post-George Floyd police death and amid the rise of Black Lives Matter and related civil protests.
Democrats didn’t mind.
Whereas Trump issued an executive order to root out and arrest violent demonstrators, Democrats took a different tack. They turned blind eyes to the armed anarchists who seized control of Seattle’s city streets and set up CHAZ/CHOP areas where no police could go. They pretended physical altercation was a First Amendment right. They protected, coddled and enabled the violent.
“Black Lives Matter leaders met with Biden officials,” CNBC reported in June 2021.
The atmosphere in America will only grow more tense as the months go by, as elections loom, as Democrats, desperate for power, do whatever it takes to seize the reins of political control.
“Radical, expressly violent support to restore the federal right to abortion grew from 8 percent in January 2023 to 12 percent as of June 26, 2023,” University of Chicago researchers wrote. “The increase was sharpest among Democrats, doubling over the past 6 months from 8 to 16 percent. This likely indicates growing anger over the Republican controlled Supreme Court.”
It’s interesting what triggers Democrats.
Our nation’s earliest colonists fought for the right of religious freedom. Our nation’s Founding Fathers fought for the right to exist free of British tyranny. Our nation’s great American social and political heroes, regardless of political party, regardless of skin color, regardless of childhood demographics and differences — from Martin Luther King Jr., to Ronald Reagan — fought for such noble ideals as equality and individualism, courage under fire and self-reliance.
Democrats?
Today’s leftists who vote with Democrats?
They fight for the right to kill babies, crush political opponents and destroy God-given freedoms.
And they’re willing to throw bricks and bust heads and toss Molotov cocktails and break storefront windows and firebomb police cruisers to get their way.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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