Everyone remembers where they were when they heard that a crazed leftist had shot and killed Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. The fact that a political assassination like this could happen in America in 2025 is still almost too much for many Americans to comprehend. But like most tragedies, some good has come from it. More conservatives are no longer afraid to speak out about their beliefs. Those on the left had refused to entertain any thought that the violent rhetoric they use played a role in Kirk’s assassination. But a new poll shows that some of those lefties might be owning up to it.

Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences.

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year highhttps://t.co/30NvIj9nzC

— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) September 28, 2025

A new NBC News poll released on Monday surveyed 1,000 registered U.S. voters from October 24 to 28 via telephone interviews and text messages, and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. The poll showed that 54 percent of Democrats said that “extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor.” In addition, 73 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of independent voters agreed. The poll also showed that another 28 percent said they “feel more this [Kirk’s assassination] is an incident caused by a disturbed person.” Surprisingly, just four percent said they felt that both extreme rhetoric and a disturbed person were the result of Kirk’s assassination.

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It is a pretty dark contrast to an earlier Public First poll taken on November 3, which showed that 24 percent of Americans said there are circumstances in which political violence could be justified. Thankfully, 64 percent said that political violence is unacceptable at any time. But in an era of new blood in the Democrat Party and on the left, those numbers rose sharply when young people were asked about political violence. One in three people under age 45 said there are circumstances where political violence is acceptable. 

The election of Jay Jones in VA is proof that political violence is acceptable among the Democrat Party. @TheDemocrats are so far left they won’t ever be moderate again.

— MaryAnnNotGinger 💋 (@MAnotGinger) November 5, 2025

So, how are we coming to such alarming numbers of Americans feeling justified in attacking, or worse, those they disagree with? For one, something Republicans and conservatives should point out more is the fact that we are on at least the second generation of young people who start life being indoctrinated in the public school system. Almost from kindergarten through their college years, young people are no longer taught how to think, but what to think. If they are confronted with a viewpoint that is different from their own programmed one, they literally have no idea how to respond, and they lash out. 

But in the same Democrat Party era of new blood comes the fact that much of that new blood, along with a good portion of the party dinosaurs the new blood is attempting to purge, gives the left-wing violence a wink and a nod. When horrific events like Charlie Kirk’s assassination happen, they go on the required cable news shows and give the also-required finger-wagging. But then talk about how the violent political rhetoric happens “on both sides.” It will take more Republican senators and Congress members like Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who called out Democrats’ and the left’s “whataboutism” in no uncertain terms back in October.

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But the biggest problem as the 2026 midterm elections near: Democrats are not going to stop their violent political rhetoric. They need their far-left-wing base as ginned up as possible until 2026. The fact that 55 percent of the Public First Poll said that not only do they expect an increase in political violence in the future, but they also expect a political candidate will be assassinated in the next five years is downright chilling. The left will continue to demonstrate what we already know about them: that the ends, however violent they might be, justify the means.

The Democrat Party has always been the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, political violence and censorship. Nothing has changed.

— “Deplorable” Ed Baker (@EdBaker3000) September 16, 2025

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