Trump's culture of retribution has swept through American life

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump is a product and articulator of his time.
58% : Honestly, I want death penalty for people like you pedo boy."
47% : "Trump and his loyalists have taken particular aim at discrediting the nation's election system.
46% : Trump's made it OK for people to hate and attack.
42% : He invokes gangster Al Capone and speaks fondly of authoritarians including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who Trump called "a friend of mine."
42% : "This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes," Robert Kagan, a political commentator and former editor-at-large for the Washington Post, wrote in 2016, "but with a television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac."By the time Trump had glided down his golden escalator to announce his candidacy a year earlier, the nation was accustomed to rancor and sharpening divisions.
39% : Some of those convicted of crimes connected to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol have said they were motivated by Trump.
39% : "Trump sought retribution against those who opposed him during his presidency, including former FBI Director James B. Comey, and has vowed to do so again if reelected.
39% : "Right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is playing on a desire for retaliation in working to turn out his social media following to vote for Trump.
38% : An unabashed showman, Trump plugged into the digital age, connecting the vitriol of social media to the insecurities and fears of a working class that felt angry and betrayed by liberalism and a changing global economic order.
33% : "What will it look like if Trump is elected?" asked Howell, the politics professor.
32% : Eight percent -- about 21 million adults -- agree that force could be used to prevent Trump from returning as president.
31% : Trump has said that "sometimes revenge can be justified."
27% : "Since his campaign in 2016, Trump has inflamed American culture wars and played on the politics of the other.
23% : Republicans have filed dozens of lawsuits to preemptively challenge the Nov. 5 election if Trump loses.
23% : "Trump rode into power with a sense that it was culturally permissible to be horrible to other people in public."
22% : "Our presidential election will determine how far it goes," she said, adding that if Trump wins "it will ramp up hate.
21% : She said she fears the vindictive atmosphere Trump has created.
18% : "A recent study by the Chicago Project on Security and Threats suggests how Trump has incited extremes and increased the potential for political violence: Six percent of Americans -- the equivalent of 15 million adults -- believe force is justified to return Trump to the White House.
10% : The CIA concluded that while Trump was in office in 2018 Salman ordered the murder of opposition journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Impeached twice and a convicted felon who faces more trials, Trump has said that he, and by extension his loyalists, have been persecuted by a "wacko" and unfair state.
6% : "Trump has been described as a fascist by John Kelly, his former chief of staff.

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