Steve Jordahl, Billy Davis, American Family News, 4/11/25
Americans who identify as liberal or left of center were refreshingly honest in a recent poll, where a majority admitted they want President Donald Trump dead before he becomes a dictator.
The poll, conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute, concluded that political violence targeting President Trump and Elon Musk is “becoming normalized” among many Americans who self-identify as either far left, liberal, or slightly liberal.
The research group, founded at Rutgers University in 2018, studies political ideology such as QAnon supporters and violent anarchists. Alarmed by vandalism of Tesla automobiles and dealerships, Network Contagion wanted to dig into the motives and mindset of the Far Left.
What the researchers found, the group said, is a cultural shift it calls “assassination culture.”
For its survey, Network Contagion surveyed 1,264 U.S. residents using current U.S. Census data on race, sex, age, and education. Among the left-leaning respondents, 55% and 48% stated it would be “somewhat justified” to kill Trump and Musk respectively.For its “Correlation Matrix” of political attitudes, Network Contagion looked at comments from Blue Sky, the Democrat-dominated social media site. On there it saw a spike – 2 million engagements since Jan. 20 – in which Trump, Musk, and alleged killer Luigi Mangione, were the main topics. Justifying the murder of the first two men, and celebrating the third man for killing an insurance executive, was a common theme.
Christian apologist Alex McFarland, of Truth for a New Generation, says left-of-center Americans have been told for years Trump is the new Adolf Hitler.
“If it was okay to kill Hitler, and Donald Trump is the modern Hitler, in their rationale it would be okay to kill Donald Trump,” he reasons.
Nicholas Fondacaro, who monitors the liberal news media for the Media Research Center, tells AFN the poll results are no surprise to the media watchdog. That’s because MRC has documented left-wing hatred toward conservatives for years and has tried to warn people where that rhetoric is heading.
“The animus shown toward conservatives and Republicans has reached a dangerous point,” Fondacaro warns, “and it’s gotten there through implicit support from figures in the liberal media.”
Asked for an example of that behavior, Fondacaro rattles off examples from ABC’s “The View” program. During the Republican National Convention, he points out, co-host Whoopi Goldberg complained the RNC was attempting to “humanize” Trump.
“She told viewers, ‘Don’t fall for that.’ What does that mean?” Fondacaro asks. “Don’t fall for the fact that he’s a human being?”
Citing a more recent example, Fondacaro says Goldberg herself invited Trump-hating comedian Amber Ruffin to perform on “The View” after she was dropped from the lineup for the upcoming Whitehouse Correspondents Association dinner.
What got Ruffin dropped was her comments on a podcast that likened the Trump administration to “a bunch of murderers.”
Ruffin also said she would not hit Democrats with any of her jokes because doing that makes Republicans “feel like human beings” but they are not, she said.
Even though conservatives might roll at their eyes at “The View” and its crazy-sounding co-hosts, Fondacaro says it is also the number one daytime talk show.
In other words, a large audience is watching, and believing, what “The View” says about Republicans.
“So their willingness to engage in such incendiary rhetoric,” Fondacaro warns, “is particularly dangerous.
According to McFarland, he suspects the anger and vitriol toward Trump and Musk is because both of them, together, are dramatically uprooting the federal government and its Democrat-dominated bureaucracy just months into Trump’s second term.
That description probably makes sense to many conservatives. Whereas many conservatives see a bloated, lazy, tax money-wasting federal government, and are cheering for it to be dismantled, the other side sees a beacon of hope being destroyed that can’t save the planet, educate children, or feed the poor.
n its analysis, Network Contagion reached a similar conclusion: Now that Trump has returned to the White House, the Far Left feels like it’s losing control of a future being determined by the next Adolf Hitler.
“These are not isolated opinions,” the report states. “They are part of a tightly connected belief system linked to what we call left-wing authoritarianism.”
Violence and corruption are the two primary characteristics (Genesis 6:11-13) of the days of Noah which the Lord Jesus implied would also predominate in the end times (Matthew 24:37-39) along with deception (vs. 4, 11, 24).
Yes, and the assassination culture epitomizes the ongoing fall of humankind into the bottomless evils of their evil old selves. They are the subjects of the recent prayer I wrote about idolaters of self.