More than 70 percent of ‘hard leftists’ wanted Trump’s killer to succeed: poll by professor

‘Identity politics has (…) moralized the left, portraying conservatives as bad rather than wrong’

A politics professor at the University of Buckingham conducted a poll shortly after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump… and found that a whopping 70 percent of “hard leftists” wished the shooter had succeeded.

The Daily mail reports that while a third of Democratic voters who agreed with the statement “white Republicans are racist” said they “somewhat agreed” with the statement that they wanted Trump dead, nearly three quarters “totally agree.”

Eric Kaufmann, director of the Center for Heterodox Social Sciences, conducted the “snap” poll on July 18 and said the results “could be explained by ‘woke moral absolutism.'”

“Identity politics has moralized the left’s vision, portraying conservatives as bad rather than wrong,” Kaufmann said, adding that the left is “more biased against the right than the right.”

Kaufmann further claimed that the poll results show a “growing partisan asymmetry” in the US, with progressives “more likely to unfriend, refuse to date, or otherwise discriminate against conservatives than the other way around.”

This underscores the attitude among leftists, who believe conservatives are “bad rather than wrong,” Kaufmann said.

As a result, they use “catastrophic language around ‘white supremacy,’ ‘fascism’ and ‘danger,’” he says.

“Given our new politics of identitarian sanctity and moral absolutism, we should not be surprised if we see a rise in political extremism,” he warns.

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As reported by The solution for the college, Several academics expressed dismay that the assassin missed the former president on July 13. Tracy Budd of Rutgers University had said, “Let’s hope today’s events inspire others” and “They shot his wig off. Sad.”

John James, an English professor at Bellarmine University, posted on Instagram: “If you’re going to shoot, man, don’t miss,” while Karen Pinder of the University of British Columbia wrote: “Damn, so close. Too bad.”

Others were not so direct. Sethunya Mokoko of the University of Virginia claimed the shooting was “theatrical,” designed to win voter sympathy.

USC’s Shaun Harper, who believed that Trump could have claimed, “And the blacks, they love me because they know the terrifying sound of gunfire,” ended up writing his article on Forbes’ website removed.

And NYU’s Ruth Ben-Ghiat worried that Trump would use the assassination attempt to open up the “authoritarian playbook” of Castro, Mussolini and … Hitler.

Professor Kaufmann (in the picture) His time at U. Buckingham only recently began after far-left “poisoned the experience” for him at Birkbeck, University of London. “I was also repelled by the cancel culture and attracted by the opportunity to help build Buckingham as the only ‘free speech university’ in Britain,” he said.

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