A new era of political violence is taking hold in America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : The extent of public support for and acceptance of political violence during this turbulent period is astonishing.
67% : Our surveys find that when Americans think "America is a systemically racist country against non-white people and always has been," they are twice as likely to support violence for grievances associated with the left.
63% : The number of incidents of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim violence and intimidation rose.
55% : We are witnessing not just the normalisation of political violence, but also the growth of significant public support for such acts among mainstream Americans.
52% : What is significant about political violence in America today is the extent to which it garners significant mass public support.
50% : There have also been a significant number of violent protests in pursuit of a range of political objectives during the same period.
41% : And in the 1960s, political violence surged in the form of major assassinations, riots in America's largest cities and the emergence of domestic terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground.
39% : And in July this year, Trump himself survived an attempt on his life.
39% : Support for political violence is not simply linked to political conspiracy theories, decline of distrust in democratic institutions, and use of social media.
35% : The more that the norms against political violence erode on one issue, the easier it is for them to break down or unravel on others.
24% : Violent protest on the right, meanwhile, reached a peak on January 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to then president-elect Joe Biden.
22% : Two months later, another armed man was arrested for attempting to assassinate Trump.

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