A new poll just dropped showing that 25% of “very liberal” Americans and 17% of “liberal” Americans believe political violence is justified. Combined, that’s over 40% of the people who keep lecturing us about “threats to democracy” openly admitting they’re cool with shooting at the people they disagree with.
Well, that explains Saturday night, doesn’t it?
Four days ago — FOUR DAYS — a gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in an assassination attempt targeting President Trump’s and his cabinet. The shooter? A Kamala Harris donor. A self-described “woke.” The kind of guy who insists grown hairy men can pee next to little girls and then picks up a rifle because MSNBC told him the president is “literally Hitler” for the last ten years.
And now we have the receipts. Over 40% of his political tribe thinks what he did is perfectly fine.
Think about that for a second. We’re not talking about some fringe anarchist subreddit. We’re talking about mainstream, college-educated, NPR-listening liberals — the ones who put “Hate Has No Home Here” signs in their yards — and four out of ten of them just told a pollster that political violence gets the green light.
(Somewhere, a liberal with a “COEXIST” bumper sticker is nodding along while cleaning his manifesto.)
Now here’s where it gets truly beautiful. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the man who called for “maximum warfare” against Republicans — was asked if maybe, just maybe, his rhetoric contributed to the climate that produced a shooter at a dinner full of journalists and political figures. His response? He defended the phrase. Doubled down. “Maximum warfare” is just a figure of speech, you see. It’s metaphorical.
Funny how that works. When President Trump says “fight like hell” about a political campaign, Democrats impeach him. When Hakeem Jeffries says “maximum warfare” and then someone literally wages warfare at a political event, well, that’s just colorful language. Context matters — but only when Democrats need it to.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt nailed it when she pointed the finger straight at the “crazed rhetoric” that’s been pumped into liberal brains like IV fluid for the past six years. You cannot tell people every single day that the president is a fascist dictator who will destroy the country and then act shocked — SHOCKED — when someone decides to do something about it.
But the poll numbers are the real story here. Because this isn’t about one deranged shooter. This is about a political movement that has quietly made peace with violence as a tool.
Remember when they told us that January 6th was the “worst attack on democracy since the Civil War”? Remember the congressional hearings, the primetime specials, the tears? A grand total of zero people were shot by protesters that day. The only person shot was an unarmed woman killed by a Capitol Police officer.
Now we’ve got an actual shooting at a gathering of political figures, committed by a leftist donor with a manifesto full of progressive talking points, and the same crowd can barely muster a press release. CNN covered it for about six hours before pivoting back to stories about how Trump’s tariffs might make your coffee cost eleven cents more.
The math is simple. Over 40% of liberals are fine with political violence. Their politicians use language like “maximum warfare.” Their media calls the president a fascist every night at 9 PM. And then every few months, one of their voters picks up a weapon and acts on what he’s been told.
But WE’RE the dangerous ones. We’re the “domestic extremists.” We’re the ones who need to be monitored by the FBI and flagged by social media algorithms. The side that goes to church, owns legal firearms, and votes in every election — that’s the real threat.
Meanwhile, 40% of the “tolerant” Left just admitted in a poll that they’re okay with shooting people over politics. And their leaders can’t even bring themselves to condemn it without adding a “but Trump” caveat.
These are the same people who spent four years calling us fascists for wanting border security. The same people who said we were “destroying norms” by appointing constitutionalist judges. The same people who impeached a president twice over phone calls and speeches while their own voters were out there building a permission structure for actual, literal, no-kidding political violence.
So the next time some blue-haired professor tells you that conservative speech is “violence,” just remember: 40% of their side thinks real violence is justified. They’re not projecting anymore. They’re confessing.