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A recent study produced by the Network Contagion Research Institute in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab should alarm every American who believes in the rule of law: the report found that a majority of self-identified left-of-center respondents said the murder of President Donald Trump would be at least somewhat justified. Those are not fringe anecdotes from anonymous message boards—this was a structured, cross-spectrum survey and the result is too horrific to ignore.
The study, released as a flash brief in April 2025, analyzed responses from a nationally weighted sample and concluded an emergent “assassination culture” is spreading in certain online and ideological pockets. Researchers pointed to a worrying alignment between online meme-aesthetics, platforms that amplify extremist content, and a rising tolerance for political murder among specific left-leaning cohorts.
This is a cultural sickness with identifiable vectors: social platforms and elite media ecosystems that normalize dehumanizing rhetoric and then shrug when violence follows. The report specifically flagged platforms like BlueSky and other niche networks as accelerants for this contagion, where celebration of violence metastasizes into real-world threats. Americans deserve to know which corners of the web are incubating this hatred so law enforcement, tech companies, and Congress can act.
Make no mistake — this is not mere partisan sniping caught up in hyperbole. There have been real-world attacks and attempted murders tied to this culture, and the pattern of cheering, excusing, or soft-pedaling violent rhetoric from influential left-wing commentators is a moral and political failure. Conservatives have been labeled alarmists for pointing out the obvious: rhetoric matters, and when powerful institutions reward or tolerate rage, the blood price is paid on American streets.
The mainstream media’s reflexive instinct to compare violence on both sides as if moral equivalence is a virtue shields the architects of this problem. Instead of honest coverage and pressure on the radical influencers and platforms that normalize killing, too many outlets prefer to sanitize or relativize the threat — a cowardly posture that leaves ordinary citizens and national leaders more exposed. It is past time for accountability: universities, Big Tech, and legacy media must stop pretending they are neutral when their platforms and talking points clearly shift the Overton window toward justification of violence.
Conservatives must respond like citizens who love their country: demand prosecutions for those who incite violence, insist Congress hold Big Tech to account, and crowd out the cultural rot with a renewed defense of civic norms and moral courage. Vote, speak, organize, and never allow the normalization of murder to become the new normal — our republic depends on it.
If you think this is hyperbole, read the findings and then look at the headlines about real attacks that followed the rhetoric. We are not asking for partisan advantage; we are demanding basic decency, law and order, and the right of every American — conservative, moderate, and liberal alike — to live without fearing political murder being framed as a legitimate opinion. The moment to act is now, or we will have only ourselves to blame.
