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Millions of Americans believe force justified to restore Trump to White House, University of Chicago study finds

More than 18 months after the rioting at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, an estimated 13 million U.S. adults, or 5% of the adult population, agree that force would be justified to restore former President Donald Trump to the White House and an estimated 15 million Americans believe force would be justified to prevent Trump from being prosecuted , should he be indicted for mishandling classified documents, according to a new study from the University of Chicago.

"We have not just a political threat to our democracy, we have a violent threat to our democracy," Dr. Robert Pape, the director of the University of Chicago's Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan on Sept. 18. "Today, there are millions of individuals who don't just think the election was stolen in 2020; they support violence to restore Donald Trump to the White House."

The 13 million estimated in the early September survey represents a reduction since June 2021, when an estimated 23 million Americans had insurrectionist sentiment. CPOST researchers extrapolated data from over 3,000 nationally representative survey participants who responded to surveys in June and September of 2021, and April and September of 2022, to reach their conclusions in the study.

Pape and his research team found that the willingness to use violence to put Trump back in the White House was largely driven by unfounded and racist fears about a "Great Replacement" of White people by immigrants and about QAnon, a set of conspiracy theories involving sex trafficking by Democrats and liberal elites and corruption. According to the study, 61% of those who favored insurrection were fueled by fears of a Great Replacement, and 48% of those surveyed believed in QAnon.

The "Great Replacement" conspiracy is built around the belief that the Democratic Party is replacing the voting electorate with a more diverse voter base to undermine or replace political power held by White people.

"[Great Replacement] is a conspiracy theory, but it's not just on fringe social media like Parler or Gab, 4chan or 8chan" Pape said. "This is every day on Fox News, it's on Newsmax, it's on One America, it's on talk radio."

It was a motivating factor behind the "Unite the Right" Charlottesville rally, and in recent mass shootings in Pittsburgh, Penn., Christchurch, New Zealand; El Paso, Texas, and most recently, Buffalo, N.Y.

"If you marry those together, you have a dangerous cocktail. You have the fear of this Great Replacement happening by a Democratic Party, and then you have the fear of corruption and immortality, and that's that dangerous combination that's leading to violent support against our democracy," Pape said.

The CPOST study also found that Jan. 6 defendants were more likely to come from urban than rural areas of the country, and that insurrectionists mostly descended upon the Capitol from counties that have diversified the most quickly in the last ten years.

Pape's research suggests that "naming and shaming" those who participated in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6 2021 has caused a decline in the number of Americans who would use force to reinstall former president Trump, likely due to this summer's hearings by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, as well as the continued prosecutions of Jan. 6 defendants and President Biden's speeches focused on that day.

Pape also spoke of Trump's association with QAnon, noting that the former president recently played a QAnon theme song at one of his rallies, and he reposted a video filled with references to the conspiracy. A central tenant of QAnon belief is thatTrump is one of few politicians capable of bringing down a cabal of sex trafficking politicians and political elite.

"The former president is willing to court not just supporters of his, but those who support violence for his goals, number one of which is being restored to the White House," Pape said. "He is deliberately stoking not just the fires of anger getting him political support, but the fires that are leading to that violent 13 [million]."

Voicing his concerns about the upcoming midterm elections, Pape said, "If it's just a political threat, well, then we can have elections. Once it's not just denying an election, but using violence as the response to an election denial, now we're in a new game."

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@1130 posted:

sad how corn and democrats ignore/forget all the violence from their side.  was it 20 riots?  pounding on the supreme court's doors, riots in dc during Trump's first days, teachers in Wisconsin over taking their state capitol,

How many fake electors did they send to Congress? When did they try to over throw the government? Comparing apples to oranges is never a good.

Republicans think a riot in Washington state is the equivalence of a failed Coup.

C’mon Corn, you brain dead libtard democraps will not admit that the “failed coup” was orchestrated by the Democraps. As was all the violent protests across the nation. When are you going to call out all the liberals behind all of it.

C'mon Gump, you Republican't traitors tried to over throw the Feds because you lost. Not one Democrat had anything to do with you traitors and your fake patriotism. You can spread all the disinformation you want... you can lie all you want, but that won't change the fact that the party of traitors was behind a failed coup. Suck it up, Buttercup... you got duped by Agent Orange... and you're too invested in it to turn back now.

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@1130 posted:

coup? there was no coup.   a small percentage went into the capitol lead by some FBI plants.  less people were in the capitol than when teachers over took the Wisconsin capitol.  Yet democrats said they were just exercising their constitutional rights.

Ah yes... In 2016 the FBI was known as 'Trumplandia' they were so pro-Trump... But the FBI tried to 'set Trump up'....
Rubes gotta rube.

Well, I remember when the Asst. chief of the FBI called out "the Clinton Crime Family"...  Comey announcing a 'new investigation in Hillary Clintion' days ahead of the election, in an attempt to pacify agents...a steady stream of leaks out of the bureau, apparently coming from New York-based agents unhappy with decisions to keep an investigation into the Clinton Foundation in low gear.

Republicans even called Comey on the carpet to discuss the 'Clinton investigation'.... one Congressman asked..“This has provoked some controversy within the ranks of current and former agents?” Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)

The FBI is “Trumplandia,” according to an agent who spoke anonymously to The Guardian newspaper.

All that happened a few months before the 2016 election....

No fantasy land needed ... I remember the 2016 election.. and the controversy surrounding the FBI. You Republicants can bury your head in the Conservative media sand... and ignore all the facts, but that doesn't change the truth.

@1130 posted:

and that was before Trump elected.  also said they found evidence just not worth do anything.  I remember FBI framing a general, falsifying a report on collusion.  DC is a swamp

I can't wait to hear about 'framing a general'...  and Trump's team had a LARGE number of meetings with the Russians. I remember when they found a new person meeting with the Russians about every 3 or 4 days....

Trump is a conman and you've been duped...
It's easier to fool someone than convince someone they've been fooled.



3:37pm... let the spamming commence.

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@1130 posted:

pert neer every politician is a con man.  they know nothing about any subject but know how to spea, lie, stretch the truth. you have been duped by MSM.  DC is a swamp

Oh boy... here we go again... every news source is wrong.. except for the 2 conservative media sites used by the MAGAts.

The world is wrong, but the MAGAts are the only ones right.... hahahahahaha!

11:21 let the amateur spamming commence.

@1130 posted:

guess it is here we go again, cuz it is true.  Media is a joke and political weapon.  when is last time a conservative got time on late night tv?  when did MSM cover the border? the list goes on and on

Well, there are 16 articles on the border, since Sept 22, on CBS alone.

The 'Fairness Doctrine' was eliminated by Regan and the conservatives.... so, you have your party to blame for that one.

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