The Rise of Political Violence, By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Jeremy Smith and Zaid Jilani have given their account of the rise of political violence, with a focus upon the place where it all happens first, America, but which soon gets transferred to the rest of the West: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/whats_driving_political_violence_in_america. This is very much systems narrative stuff, but still relevant. Thus, they write that political violence, such as assassination attempts arose just at the time when Donald Trump came on the scene, so he must bear "much of the responsibility for the trend." Or so they think.

Thus they see Trump as inciting the January 6 crowd to engage in insurrection to try and stop Biden becoming president: "Trump raised a mob of protesters who attacked the U.S. Capitol." No, protests were not illegal, and there as no attack upon the Capitol. This is straight from the Democrat play book.And then they write: "Five people died that day, and four responding police officers committed suicide within seven months of the attack." The implication is that the protesters killed these people, when in fact it was the authorities who killed Trump supporters, such as Ashli Babbitt, 35, of San Diego an Air Force veteran, who unarmed was gunned down by a Black cop who got off scot-free.

Smith and Jilani then go on to give an outline of why they think political violence is rising, discussing factors such as intense partisan identity, depression and stress, and aggression. Nothing here about the role of the Democrats and globalists in wrecking the country, eliminating jobs, producing homelessness and poverty by mass immigration. This is the typical stuff produced by academics, and another good reason to shut down the universities as my Aussie friends at the blog keep saying. I concur.