And here’s some context on your 55 percent stat that you are using deceptively…
Do 55 percent of democrats feel it political violence would be morally right?
No, 55% of Democrats do not believe that political violence is morally right. Broad, generalized national tracking polls consistently show that the vast majority of Democrats, like most Americans, reject political violence.The "55%" statistic frequently cited in recent public discourse stems from a misinterpretation of specific, distinct polling questions.Where the 55% Figure Comes FromThe number 55% appears in two prominent, recent political studies, neither of which found that 55% of all Democrats approve of general political violence:Expectations of Future Violence: A POLITICO/Public First poll found that 55% of all Americans (crossing bipartisan lines) expect political violence to increase in the future, not that they endorse it.Target-Specific Outlier Sub-Polls: A report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) surveyed individuals who identify as "left-of-center" regarding very specific targets. In that hyper-specific, subset group, 55% answered that harming tech billionaire Elon Musk would be "somewhat justified". (In the same poll, 48% of that subset group said the same regarding Donald Trump). This does not represent 55% of the broader Democratic Party endorsing political violence at large.Actual Polling on Democrats and Political ViolenceWhen voters are asked broadly whether political violence is justified to achieve political goals, the numbers are significantly lower, though non-partisan researchers note a recent uptick across the political spectrum:Marquette Law School Poll: Found that 15% of Democrats agree it is "justified for Americans today to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals" (compared to 6% of Republicans).PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll: Revealed that 28% of Democrats believe Americans "may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track". This was an increase from previous years but remains a clear minority, trailing the 31% of Republicans who agreed with the same statement.UC Davis Health Survey: A comprehensive tracker found that 32.1% of "strong Democrats" believed violence could be usually or always justified to achieve at least one out of 20 specific political objectives (such as protecting abortion access), compared to 52.2% of MAGA Republicans looking at their own set of objectives.The Bottom LineWhile researchers from organizations like the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) warn that tolerance for political rhetoric and targeted radicalism has risen on both sides of the aisle, 70% to 85% of Democrats explicitly abhor and reject political violence when surveyed generally.
