The last few years have seen a stark increase in political violence. Most recently, the conservative activist and speaker Charlie Kirk was publicly assassinated at Utah Valley University. Multiple assassination attempts have been made on President Trump as well—most memorably in Butler, Pennsylvania last year. Even state-level politics have seen such horrific events, with two Minnesota lawmakers being attacked in their homes earlier in June.

What’s especially troubling is that new polling data indicates that “three in ten [Americans] either strongly agree (11%) or agree (19%) that Americans may need to resort to violence to get the country back on course.” Another poll from Politico and Public First found that 55% of Americans “expect political violence to increase.”

This data is spread

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