Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson warned during a Thursday podcast that there is a growing risk of additional assassination attempts against President Donald Trump as Democrats become increasingly desperate.
March polling by NBC News and CNN/SSRS found Democrats with all-time low popularity ratings of 27% and 29% among voters. Hanson argued on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show” that the party’s declining popularity and “power” is fueling more extreme rhetoric — potentially inciting further violence like the two failed attempts against Trump in July and September.
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“I’m just watching this and I see that the more impotent they are and the less actual power they wield, and the less the public likes them — if you look at the polls of the Democratic Party, 29%, 27%, one poll I think was 23% approval — they react to that by being crazier and more strident and upping the, you know, not just ‘fascist,’ but the other day [Democratic Texas Rep.] Jasmine Crockett said that Trump was like worse than the MS-13 gang member, you know.”
Crockett said Saturday that she believed alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “less criminal” than Trump. In addition to allegedly being a member of MS-13, Garcia’s wife has also accused her husband of physically abusing her.
“So, they are lowering the bar on what’s permissible. And we’re going to see something like we saw with these two assassin[ation] [attempts],” Hanson added. “I don’t want to predict it; I hope it never happens.”
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“But if they keep this language up and you start to see polls that say 50% of self-identified leftists think it’s okay to shoot, and you see them romanticizing a assassin [allegedly] like [Luigi] Mangione, and you see them go fund an alleged murderer like Karmelo Anthony and basically saying that he was a victim and you see this [alleged] MS-13 wife beater who was pulled over for trafficking and let go and was found — yes, everybody, he was found by a immigration judge to have MS-13 ties,” he continued. “Even his wife did not deny it. She didn’t deny that she was beaten by him either.”
Data released April 7 by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found “48% and 55%” of “left of center” people “at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.”
Hanson said left-wing support for people like Abrego Garcia, Mangione and Anthony shows a pattern.
“They all have one thing in common: They all have [allegedly] committed violent acts and they’re romanticized … my point is that they are creating a climate of fear and legitimizing violence and something’s going to happen,” Hanson said. “And I think they want that to happen, this hardcore wing. When you keep saying all of these things, all of these things, it’s cumulative. And it’s not good. We’ll see where it leads to.”
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