Poll: One In Three Americans Say Violence Against Government Justified

Riot police face protesters in Lafayette Park, yards from the White House, on Sunday night. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters  

Washington Post: 1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, citing fears of political schism, pandemic 

Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. 

But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former president Donald Trump’s false fraud claims, the part-time engineering consultant from Dover, Del., said he began thinking differently about “defending your way of life.” 

“Not too many years ago, I would have said that those conditions are not possible, and that no such violence is really ever appropriate,” said Spampinato, 73, an independent.  

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WNU Editor: Details on the poll are here (link here). 

Poll: One In Three Americans Say Violence Against Government Justified  

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