CPOST Survey Data Cited in WSJ

Fri., Sep. 20, 2024    

CPOST's June 2024 survey on support for political violence in America cited in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, September 20, 2024. 

From the article: "As politically motivated attacks have proliferated, Americans have become more inured—and more open—to violence as a means to a political end, said Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago. Pape conducted a nationwide poll on the topic this June in which 10% of those surveyed said the use of force would be justified to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, while 7% said violence would be acceptable to restore him to power. “These two radical minorities can spiral,” Pape said. “They can feed off of each other, and the numbers can grow.”

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