Supporting Trump Means Supporting a Culture of Violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : On Good Friday, Donald Trump shared a video that prominently featured a truck with a picture of a hog-tied Joe Biden on it.
52% : "Other Americans are well within their rights to wonder if this is what Trump supporters actually want to see in 2024.
49% : Donald Trump is, and he did.
45% : Trump is targeting the President of the United States.
44% : But what Trump is doing is dangerous, and the time is long past to stop treating support for his candidacy as just one of many ordinary political choices.
41% : Meanwhile, Trump also had words last week for the people trying to hold him accountable -- or, more accurately, for their children.
37% : "Then, on Saturday, Trump blasted out a New York Post article that included Loren Merchan's picture to his followers.
37% : Such thoughts are unpleasant -- in part because of how many millions of Americans, including people we may know and care about, have repeatedly voted for Trump.
33% : After all we have learned and seen, and all of the questions we might ask of Trump supporters, perhaps only one simple and direct question truly matters now:
32% : Over the weekend, Donald Trump sent out a video with an image of Joe Biden bound like a hostage, and linked to an article with a photo of the daughter of the judge in his hush-money trial in New York.
24% : On Sunday morning, for example, Kristen Welker of Meet the Press noted that Trump had "stepped up his attacks on the judge and his family in the New York hush money case" and is "falsely calling the criminal proceedings 'election interference.'"
23% : Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him.
21% : Is this something you'd want your children to see?Trump's apologists -- especially those who claim to be against Trump but are sympathetic to the movement he leads -- will complain that such questions are un-American, and that we should not judge other citizens for their choices.
20% : "I cannot recall prominent elected Democrats calling for hurting Trump or his family.
18% : Perhaps Bill Clinton or the Bushes tied up like hostages?
12% : The closest Biden got was when he once lost his temper six years ago and said that if he and Trump were in high school, he'd have wanted to beat him up behind the gym, a comment Biden later said he regretted.
11% : (The whining about judgment is particularly ironic coming from Trump adherents, who constantly judge others while cheering on Trump's descriptions of other Americans as "vermin" and "thugs" -- all the while constantly complaining about how others are judging them.)
7% : The day before he promoted imagery depicting the torture of the sitting president, Trump fired off a Truth Social post in which he mentioned the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over his hush-money criminal trial: "Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately," Trump wrote.

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