According to a new study, political violence against President Donald Trump and his tycoon director is “becoming extremely adjusted,” according to a report released by the crazed left, which is being fuelled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and vehemently disliked Elon Musk.
The report, produced by the Network of Contagion Research Institute (NCRI ) in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, finds a broader “assassination culture” appears to be “emerging within segments of the U. S. public on the extreme left, with expanding targets now including figures such as Donald Trump” . ,
It’s no secret that leftists are ramping up violent language and actions less than a year after the assassination attempts against Trump, the then-presidential member, and the virtually violent crime against Musk’s Tesla energy vehicles. The more disturbing trend is that the “assassination society” isn’t really originating from the “fringe” left.  ,
According to the report,” Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence,”” These attitudes are not border — they reflect an evolving death lifestyle, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and exceedingly adjusted in modern discourse.
Popular Justification for Lethal Violence
NCRI, an independent organization working to “identify and forecast emerging challenges in the age of information problem”, finds the design is building on a broader pattern discussed in two accounts in December that analyzed “how viral social media narratives were legitimizing political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the United Healthcare CEO’s death” . ,
According to the authors of the most recent study,” the reports found , widespread justification for lethal violence, including assassination,” among younger, highly online, and ideologically left-aligned users.  ,
They note the spillover effect beyond the online world, illustrated by a proposed California ballot measure macabrely named” the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act”, celebrating the alleged leftist terrorist and murderer of United Healthcare head Brian Thompson. One of Mangione’s reported flashpoints is the health insurance denials, which is the subject of the ballot measure.  ,
On Friday, a California man reportedly “angry with pharmacies” was arrested on charges of murdering a Walgreens employee just days after the Luigi Mangione Act was filed with the state. According to ABC 30’s report, the victim, Erick Velazquez, was a respected husband and father of two. He was not a pharmacist.
Source: NCRI data
NCRI accessed the violence zeitgeist with original survey data and open source intelligence analysis to determine “how normalized and justified violence against the administration has become in public discourse”.
The reports remark that” the findings represent a threat to political stability and public safety.”
According to the report, these numbers are troubling: ,
- Murder Justification: 31 % and 38 % of respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively. These effects were largely caused by respondents who self-identified as left-of-center, with 48 % and 55 % at least partially supporting murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively, which suggests significantly higher justification for violence against these figures.
- Property Destruction: Nearly 40 % of respondents ( 39.8 % ) thought it was at least somewhat acceptable ( or more acceptable ) to raze a Tesla dealership in protest.  ,
- These beliefs are in direct relation to one another, as well as with the justification for the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and the hyper-partisan left-wing ideology. This suggests that support for violence is a component of a wider assassination culture, supported by psychological and ideological factors.
Interestingly, the report finds liberal social media platform BlueSky “plays a significant and predictive role in amplifying radical ideation”. According to the leftist publication The Guardian, BlueSky has seen a rise in new user numbers since the election in November. The Guardian claims that liberals are” seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X” amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform.  ,
According to NCRI, users are increasingly linking calls for political violence against Trump, Musk, and others, “reflecting the growing cyber-social presence of assassination culture.” A meme of the Luigi character from the Super Mario Brothers video game/movie franchise has been used as a symbol of political violence by Mangione supporters. Some of the threats echo the” Deny, Defend, Depose” mantra inscribed by Mangione on the shell casing that killed Brian Thompson, according to the report.  ,
Source: NCRI data
We’ll” Gut You,”
In February, law enforcement officials charged 28-year-old David Allen June Cherry of southern Indiana with felony intimidation after police say he posted online multiple violent threats against Elon Musk, including that Cherry would “gut” the close adviser to President Donald Trump.
You have broken the law, you say. You’re on the hit list, Cherry allegedly stated to a Musk post on the Musk-owned social media platform X, according to an affidavit.  , “You’re robbing American people. The leftist allegedly threatened Musk a short while later,” We will gut you and parade your corpse in the streets.”  ,
Indiana State Police tracked Cherry at his job at Batteries Plus and arrested him, according to news accounts. At his Palmyra home, reportedly, he seized an AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, ammunition, and a ballistic vest, according to Fox7.
Cherry, who reportedly runs an online store selling anti-Musk goods, including an “anti-oligarch” patch with an image of a raised-arm Musk in cross-hairs, reportedly told officials he merely wanted to make his posts “edgy” to stoke social media reactions, and that he meant no harm. He was released on$ 2, 500 bond and faces the potential of six years in prison on the felony counts while he continues his hate campaign against the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX. According to court records, his trial is scheduled for August.  ,
Cherry appears to be celebrating his alleged intimidation game on his Red Pawn Dynamics page.
” Red Pawn scared the richest man on the planet, let it be known. What a giant p*ussy,” the website boasts.
His GoFundMe page has raised$ 4, 500 of a$ 15, 000 goal, supposedly for legal fees and to get his car out of impound. His supporters claim Cherry is being persecuted because “his opinion was about a billionaire” and that the First Amendment protects his speech.
” Too Far Down the Deep End”
Musk reportedly has been the target of a growing number of threats over his leadership role in Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and his pledge to trim$ 2 trillion a year from the bloated, wasteful and fraud-plagued federal budget.  ,
A Tennessee man allegedly upset with Trump and Musk was detained on suspicion of putting together explosives to “burn down” Musk’s artificial intelligence data facility in Memphis. Ethan Paul Early, 25, told police that his friends talked him out of going through with the plan. According to the affidavit, he claimed had become too enamored with politics and had traveled” too far down the deep end.”  ,
A recent Fox News analysis found that there have been more than 50 reported targeted attacks on Tesla EVs, dealerships and charging stations in the U. S., and at least 17 internationally.  ,
According to the news outlet,” the incidents range from minor vandalism, such as keying or graffiti, to more extreme cases like arson and drive-by shootings allegedly targeting Tesla vehicles.”  ,
Trump is a constant target of threats from members of the unhinged left, who was shot and nearly assassinated at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July. Police in Jupiter, Florida detained Glen DeCicco on Friday on suspicion of writing threats to kill Trump on his Facebook page. ” The Jupiter Police Department worked in coordination with the United States Secret Service throughout the investigation”, the press release states.
Real-World Escalation
The right is supported by such political violence, but the prevalence is not nearly as high as it would be in the NCRI report on the growing assassination culture.  ,
The authors claim that” this report points to disturbingly high levels of support for political violence, particularly those aimed at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.” Nearly one-third of respondents in the survey responses, and a significantly higher proportion of those with left-leaning backgrounds, said they had some form of justification for acts of lethal violence.
While threats and acts of violence rise on the left, the silence from Democrats in power is deafening. However, we’ve seen this film before. Spoiler alert: Many innocent people are left in the dark about how things turn out. Attorney General Pam Bondi has rightly called the spate of attacks against Tesla “nothing short of domestic terrorism”, because that’s what it is. similar to the numerous domestic terrorism repercussions of Trump’s first term, such as the Black Lives Matter riots.  ,
” For the last five years, the violent left has run rampant with few consequences for the chaos it has sown”, Karol Markowicz recently wrote in the New York Post.  ,
A clear warning is included in the NCRI report.  ,
The report concludes that “unless political and cultural leadership explicitly confronts and condemns this trend, NCRI assesses a growing likelihood of real-world escalation.” The online normalization of political violence may increasingly lead to offline action because of the current economic uncertainty and institutional mistrust.
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. Kittle was the executive director of Empower Wisconsin before becoming an award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism.
