A third of Democratic Party voters are sorry that the assassination of Trump was not successful. Or maybe even more so. But a third openly admitted it in polling. As statistician Eric Kaufmann’s analysis shows, this opinion is linked to strength of conviction. The stronger one’s convictions about the values espoused by the Democratic Party, the more likely one is to approve of the murder of a political opponent. It follows that an overwhelming majority of hard core supporters of the Democratic Party would approve and support the assassination of Donald Trump.
There are reasons to believe that it is no different in our part of the world. The overwhelming majority of hard-core supporters of the Progressive Slovakia party close to the Open Society would be delighted by the murder of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and the hard core of supporters of the Five Coalitions would consider it right to murder the main opposition politician Andrej Babis.
This is no longer about fringe groups of nutters. After all, how large a proportion of Adolf Hitler’s voters would have approved of all his horrific brutal practices (had they known about them)? Certainly not all of them. Maybe just that third. To label the current liberal democrats as a fascist movement is no exaggeration. We are only separated from a full-blown outbreak of violence by their cowardice, the general inertia of social development and, in the case of the Czech Republic, the fact that too many of their opponents are armed.