The far left crackpot on social media has normalized the idea that President Donald Trump and Tesla Tycoon Elon Musk should be assassinated.
The horrifying news comes from Rutgers University's Network Contación Research Institute. And there's no problem with mask-slappers who have discovered that almost 50% of government efficiency has discovered federal officials suffering from waste, fraud and abuse.
A report from the NCRI says the left has normalised its advocacy for political violence. But this finding is no surprise given Trump's rhetoric of hatred spewed out by Democrats and celebrities on the far left over the years.
Report
NCRI specializes in “identifying and predicting cybersocial threats,” tracking social media to “explor and identify emerging threats.”
And what it found about the American left is something that anyone familiar with social media already knows anecdote. The left wing is increasingly indifferent thanks to Trump Mad Syndrome and its associated mental illness, Musk Antipathy Syndrome.
“Political violence targeting Donald Trump and Elon Musk is becoming more and more normalized,” the NCRI reported.
After July 13, 2024, after attempting to assassinate President Trump, tolerance and even defense of political violence appears to have risen sharply, especially among the politically left-wing population. This pattern is based on a broader trend identified in two December 2024 reports that analysed how viral social media narratives justify political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO.
Worse, social media is full of “a widespread justification for deadly violence, including assassinations, among young and online young people.” Meanwhile, “spillover” has even influenced politics, as California's voting law (access to health care) shows. Mangion faces a federal death sentence if convicted of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The NCRI findings dislike “it poses a threat to political stability and public safety.”
The group's key findings showed that the crazy story on the left pushes people to an extreme extent. 31% of those who voted said “at least it would be somewhat justified.” 38% say the same thing about Trump.
However, the left is the people who promote its extremism, the report states:
These effects are driven primarily by respondents who have been self-identified as the left of the center, with 48% and 55% respectively being murders that have been at least somewhat justified to Elon Musk and President Trump, indicating a significantly higher justification for violence against these figures.
Similarly, 39.8% of those polled said “protesting and destroying Tesla dealers is at least somewhat acceptable (or even more).”
The NCRI surveyed 1,264 people.
With blue ski fingers
Naturally, BlueSky, the far-left answer to Musk's X-social platform, “plays an important and predictive role in amplifying radical ideas,” the report states.
Users are increasingly linking Luigi Mangion's memeization and calls for political violence against masks, Trump and others, reflecting the growing cybersocial presence of assassination culture.
To arrive at an astonishing conclusion, the NCRI created a score to measure the acceptability of political violence among the left. “The score of 1 meant that respondents considered political violence completely unfair,” the group said. “Scores from 2 to 7 showed that they believed that at least there was justification for political violence, and for those who chose the seven, it was completely justified.”
These include the “nasty trends” ncri, which are revealed.
More than half of those self-identified as the left of the center (55.2%) reported that if someone murdered Donald Trump, it would be justified at least to some extent. Similarly, almost half of those self-identified as the left of the center say that Elon Musk's murder is somewhat justified (or more), which is “fully justified” (or see Figure 3). Of all respondents, we believe that destroying Tesla dealers is at least somewhat acceptable to protest President Musk's involvement in the presidential administration.
In addition to Bluesky, Reddit is another boiling cauldron from Bloodlust. “Users are explicitly calling for violence against Trump, Musk and government agencies.”
And “Attitudes are not fringes. They reflect an urgent assassination culture that is increasingly normalized in digital discourse based on left and right authoritarianism,” says NCRI:
Cybersocial platforms, Bluesky in particular, play a powerful predictive role in amplifying this culture. References to Luigi Mangione now serve as a coded support for political violence, smearing with irony, memoization, and plausible negativity. In these ecosystems, violence is not only justified, but also stylized, gaming and embedded within the broader ideological narrative. In combination with psychological drivers such as external trajectories of control, these dynamics create a tolerant environment in which users feel morally authorized to defend or celebrate extreme actions.
The report concludes that political and cultural leaders must confront and condemn trends. Otherwise, the NCRI concluded that “there is a growing possibility of real-world escalation. Given current economic volatility and institutional distrust, online normalization of political violence could lead to increasingly offline behavior.”
Celebrities are seeking violence
But social media is not the only culprit. The famous person on the far left is also famous for normalizing the call to violence. And they've been for years. “He's a punk, he's a dog, he's a pig, he's a con man, a burss*t artist, Mutt,” declared actor Robert Denilo, who was washed away before the 2016 election. “I want to punch him in my face.”
In 2017, Has-Been Comedienne Kathy Griffin supported Trump's bloody, beheaded model.
In the same year, Shakespeare's performance in the park featured Julius Caesar, who resembles a Trump stab and dies.
Meanwhile, top Democrats, including former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, have repeatedly called Trump a hatred and a “threat to democracy.” Harris called Trump a “fascist” and compared him to Adolf Hitler after his first attempt in life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Last year, New York Democrat Dan Goldman said Trump “must be eliminated.”