#democrats — Public Fediverse posts
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NOW PLAYING == The Thom Hartmann Program 7/20/26
https://www.youtube.com/live/PQB8TL9FeRw?si=HNwkdLYiZyquCJVA
#news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #ThomHartmann #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
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NOW PLAYING == The Thom Hartmann Program 7/20/26
https://www.youtube.com/live/PQB8TL9FeRw?si=HNwkdLYiZyquCJVA
#news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #ThomHartmann #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
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Call your reps every day! So let's check in our list today. (thanks to https://www.5calls.org/ )
* Oppose funding Trump's illegal war and any voter suppression.
* Abolish ICE after their latest murders.
* Oppose any Nationwide book bans
* Oppose Todd Blanche, Jay Clatyon,and Bill Pulte
* (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein filesFind your rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Senators:
Schiff: 202-224-3841
Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
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Call your reps every day! So let's check in our list today. (thanks to https://www.5calls.org/ )
* Oppose funding Trump's illegal war and any voter suppression.
* Abolish ICE after their latest murders.
* Oppose any Nationwide book bans
* Oppose Todd Blanche, Jay Clatyon,and Bill Pulte
* (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein filesFind your rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
Senators:
Schiff: 202-224-3841
Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
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Democrats Leverage Arrests of MAGA Influencers as Political Weapon Against Trump
📰 Original title: Superweapon against Trump handed to Dems with arrest of MAGA influencers: analysis
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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"There's a place for lost Americans"
#music #art #economy #Democrats #democracy #GOP #America #tyranny #maga #epsteinclass #freedom #oligarchy #elections #vote
#meidastouch #reddit #courts #law
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"There's a place for lost Americans"
#music #art #economy #Democrats #democracy #GOP #America #tyranny #maga #epsteinclass #freedom #oligarchy #elections #vote
#meidastouch #reddit #courts #law
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NOW PLAYING == The BradCast with Brad Friedman 7/13/26: Encore - Trump Fires All Commissioners on U.S. Elections Assistance Commission — Should We Worry? ft. election security expert Susan Greenhalgh - @TheBradBlog
#news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #BradFriedman #TheBradBlog #KPFK #electionintegrity #climate #greennews #DesiDoyen #Democrats #vsn #radio #activism #elections
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NOW PLAYING == The BradCast with Brad Friedman 7/13/26: Encore - Trump Fires All Commissioners on U.S. Elections Assistance Commission — Should We Worry? ft. election security expert Susan Greenhalgh - @TheBradBlog
#news #uspol #politics #commentary #progressive #left #BradFriedman #TheBradBlog #KPFK #electionintegrity #climate #greennews #DesiDoyen #Democrats #vsn #radio #activism #elections
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CuckerTarslon: G#OD BLESS #Democrats For #Voting Against #Israel #BreakingPoints #yt
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CuckerTarslon: G#OD BLESS #Democrats For #Voting Against #Israel #BreakingPoints #yt
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CuckerTarslon: G#OD BLESS #Democrats For #Voting Against #Israel #BreakingPoints #yt
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CuckerTarslon: G#OD BLESS #Democrats For #Voting Against #Israel #BreakingPoints #yt
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Newsom lays down the law! Meanwhile Mamdani is debating whether he should arrest a war criminal who has killed 100 thousand people.
“If you violate California’s laws, if you interfere with our voters, tamper with our ballots, or meddle in our election, you will be prosecuted. It does not matter who gave the order,” the governor says.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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Newsom lays down the law! Meanwhile Mamdani is debating whether he should arrest a war criminal who has killed 100 thousand people.
“If you violate California’s laws, if you interfere with our voters, tamper with our ballots, or meddle in our election, you will be prosecuted. It does not matter who gave the order,” the governor says.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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@nando161
The #BothSides stupidity is nonsense.The day after #Democrats forced Platner to quit for being credibly accused of raping a woman, Palm Beach, Florida renamed their airport after the #GOPs Adjudicated #GrabEmBy #rapist #Potus… a man credibly accused of #pedophilia.
So PLEASE don't lecture me on "ethical bankruptcy"... buddy. 🤦♂️
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@nando161
The #BothSides stupidity is nonsense.The day after #Democrats forced Platner to quit for being credibly accused of raping a woman, Palm Beach, Florida renamed their airport after the #GOPs Adjudicated #GrabEmBy #rapist #Potus… a man credibly accused of #pedophilia.
So PLEASE don't lecture me on "ethical bankruptcy"... buddy. 🤦♂️
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@nando161
Are you actually complaining about someone responding/disagreeing with one of your posts?"A bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people" isn't the Democratic Party. Let me introduce you to the current Potus. A Republican "billionaire" with zero political experience". 🤨
#Democrats vote for the former bartender (AOC) and rallied around the Oyster Farmer (Platner).
The fact "Rich people" pay their employees so little they qualify for food stamps isn't a myth.
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@nando161
Are you actually complaining about someone responding/disagreeing with one of your posts?"A bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people" isn't the Democratic Party. Let me introduce you to the current Potus. A Republican "billionaire" with zero political experience". 🤨
#Democrats vote for the former bartender (AOC) and rallied around the Oyster Farmer (Platner).
The fact "Rich people" pay their employees so little they qualify for food stamps isn't a myth.
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@nando161
Is this an absurd condemnation of #Democrats, or a quote from them about #Republicans? 🤔B/c 9 of the top 10 political donors are Republicans (one of whom is the worlds first Trillionaire.)
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@nando161
Is this an absurd condemnation of #Democrats, or a quote from them about #Republicans? 🤔B/c 9 of the top 10 political donors are Republicans (one of whom is the worlds first Trillionaire.)
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Why is he debating it? We can't be the only side that plays by the rules, we need fighters! If Mamdani can't arrest a criminal who has killed 100s of thousands of people then he needs to be replaced!
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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Why is he debating it? We can't be the only side that plays by the rules, we need fighters! If Mamdani can't arrest a criminal who has killed 100s of thousands of people then he needs to be replaced!
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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https://www.europesays.com/people/158800/ How Congress is losing its path(s) – Roll Call #Agriculture #Appropriations #BrandSafety #Budget #Congress #Coronavirus #DEFENSE #democrats #DepartmentOfDefense #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #ExecutiveBranch #Filibuster #HomelandSecurity #house #Intelligence #Iran #JoeBiden #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #Louisiana #maine #national #PattyMurray #pentagon #podcast #Republicans #Senate #SouthDakota #SusanCollins #Trump #voting #washington
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House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen | Norman Solomon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/house-democrats-israel-hakeem-jeffries-schumer #Democrats #Israel #UsMidtermElections2026 #HouseOfRepresentatives #UsSenate #UsCongress #UsPolitics #UsNews #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #WorldNews
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House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen | Norman Solomon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/house-democrats-israel-hakeem-jeffries-schumer #Democrats #Israel #UsMidtermElections2026 #HouseOfRepresentatives #UsSenate #UsCongress #UsPolitics #UsNews #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #WorldNews
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DATE: July 20, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The “folk hero” narrative surrounding Luigi Mangione increased Democrats’ support for violence against Republicans, study finds
A recent study published in Public Opinion Quarterly suggests that highly publicized, morally framed acts of violence can influence public attitudes toward political aggression. The research provides evidence that the arrest of Luigi Mangione, following the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer, led to an increase in support for partisan violence among Democrats.
The study was conducted by Chiara Vargiu, an assistant professor of political communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Alessandro Nai, an associate professor of political communication and journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Vargiu and Nai also co-authored the 2026 book The Psychology of Attack Politics: Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects. Their research regularly examines political hostility and how it shifts public opinion.
“In our research, my co-author and I have looked at different forms of aggressive political rhetoric, focusing, among other things, on when and why citizens come to see it as acceptable,” Vargiu said. “But over the past few years, we have witnessed not just aggressive rhetoric, but numerous episodes of actual political violence.”
“In a polarized context, such as the US, where political opponents are increasingly seen as enemies or threats (partly due to that same aggressive rhetoric we have been studying), this raises the question of how people respond to such violence,” Vargiu explained. The political landscape in the United States features rising polarization and occasional acts of politically motivated aggression. In this environment, scholars want to understand what drives ordinary citizens to justify violence against political opponents.
“There are longstanding theories in social psychology suggesting that violence on one’s in-group generates hostile reactions toward the group seen as responsible, sometimes to the point of supporting aggression in return,” Vargiu noted. “But the actual research on this is a bit mixed, with recent studies not finding evidence for such a retaliatory response in the context of inter-partisan violence.”
Previous research into attacks on political figures showed that such events do not usually increase the public appetite for violence among the victims’ supporters. Supporters of victimized politicians tend to pull back from endorsing aggressive tactics. The December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson presented a completely different scenario. The perpetrator, Luigi Mangione, targeted a corporate executive rather than a politician or elected official.
The health insurance industry is highly unpopular among many Americans, who view it as a broken and exploitative system. A public narrative quickly emerged online that framed the shooter as a vigilante fighting back against institutional corruption. The researchers had a unique opportunity to test how this specific narrative impacted partisan animosity. “We happened to be in the field with a survey when the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination occurred, which allowed us to explore this question directly,” Vargiu said.
To explore this dynamic, the scientists used data from a two-wave survey of American adults. The first wave took place between September 4 and November 5, 2024, and included 3,100 respondents. A second wave followed from November 6 to December 17, 2024, retaining 2,479 of those participants. The researchers worked with the polling company YouGov to recruit a sample that reflected the demographic makeup of the country based on factors like age, gender, and education.
The survey utilized a rolling cross-section design. This means that small, random subsets of participants were invited to take the survey every other day over a span of time. This method is highly beneficial for studying unexpected events. It avoids the problem of people choosing to take a survey simply because a major news story broke. It allows researchers to compare the attitudes of people who took the survey just before a specific event to those who took it immediately afterward.
The assassination occurred on December 4, right in the middle of the second wave of data collection. A few days later, on December 9, authorities arrested and publicly identified Mangione. The researchers used these two dates as specific dividing lines to measure shifts in public opinion.
During the survey, participants read a hypothetical newspaper article to measure their tolerance for political violence. The text described a man violently attacking a political opponent with a baseball bat following an ideological argument. Respondents then answered five questions using a scale from 0 to 100 to indicate their level of support for the fictional attacker. They rated whether they could support the act, if the violence could be justified, and if they believed the attacker was likely provoked.
Participants also rated if such things happen all the time in America, and whether the perpetrator should face criminal charges. The scientists combined these answers to create an overall index of support for partisan violence. When looking at the entire group of respondents, the overall support for political violence did not change much. Splitting the data by political affiliation, however, revealed a different pattern.
“First, violence itself didn’t immediately trigger more support for violence,” Vargiu told PsyPost. “In fact, right after the killing, Democrats actually became slightly less supportive of partisan violence, not more.”
“The shift only happened later, after Luigi Mangione was arrested and identified, and public discourse began reframing him as a ‘folk hero,'” Vargiu noted. “That suggests that it wasn’t the act of violence itself that mattered most, but the narrative that followed.”
The reaction to the corporate executive’s murder also crossed over into the political sphere. “Second, and maybe more unsettling: even though the killing was not explicitly linked to partisan politics (the victim wasn’t a politician and the shooter wasn’t acting on behalf of either party) people still filtered it through a partisan lens,” Vargiu explained.
“Democrats became more supportive of violence against Republicans specifically, not violence in general. This shows that in a country as polarized as the US currently is, a formally non-partisan act of violence can still generate partisan reactions.”
“Third, the direction of that shift is itself telling,” Vargiu said. “We might have expected Republicans, whose side was more associated with the victim, to become more supportive of retaliatory violence (acting in defense of their own side). But that is not what happened.”
“Instead, it was Democrats, whose views aligned more closely with the perpetrator’s cause, who became more supportive of violence,” Vargiu explained. “This suggests that public acceptance of political aggression may have less to do with in-group defense, and more to do with hostility toward the opposing side. That is, people may not become more willing to endorse violence because their side was attacked, but because they already feel enough animosity toward the other side that violence against them seems justified.”
To analyze the data over time, the scientists also used an interrupted time series analysis. This statistical technique examines data collected at multiple points in time before and after a specific intervention to detect any changes in the underlying trend. The analysis confirmed that Democrats became more likely over time to say the hypothetical attacker was provoked, specifically after Mangione’s arrest.
To ensure their findings were accurate, the scientists tested additional psychological and personal factors. They looked at whether a general desire for social chaos, feelings of relative deprivation, or a person’s physical health status played a role in how they answered. The concept of Need for Chaos describes a desire to disrupt or overturn established social hierarchies.
Individuals with a high need for chaos showed an increased tendency to justify the hypothetical violence and were less likely to want criminal charges for the fictional attacker. Participants reporting poor physical health also displayed more support for the fictional violence, possibly reflecting negative personal experiences with the medical system. Even after accounting for these variables, the partisan differences remained a consistent finding across the analysis.
The researchers note that this data requires appropriate context to avoid misinterpretations. “We want to be very clear that our results should not be read as ‘Democrats are violent’ or ‘liberals are more prone to political violence,'” Vargiu cautioned. “That would be a misinterpretation of both our data and the broader research on this topic.”
“In fact, prior research (including some of the work we discuss in our paper) suggests that people on the left tend to be, on average, dispositionally less inclined toward aggression, thanks to traits like empathy and openness to experience that are more common on that end of the spectrum.”
“What our findings actually show is something different, and in some ways more concerning, namely that a compelling narrative around violence can be powerful enough to shift attitudes even among groups who are generally less likely to endorse violence in the first place,” Vargiu said. “The real takeaway is that moralizing narratives about violence can move public opinion regardless of where people start out, and not that one side is inherently more violent than the other.”
It is necessary to consider the limitations of this natural experiment. The study measured stated attitudes toward a hypothetical scenario, rather than actual violent behavior in the real world. Expressing sympathy for an attacker on an anonymous survey does not necessarily mean a person would act aggressively in real life.
The specific details of the Mangione case are also highly unique and might not apply to other situations. The viral appeal of the perpetrator, the intense unpopularity of the health insurance industry, and the specific polarized climate in the United States all contributed to the public reaction. Similar acts of violence in different cultural contexts might not produce the same shifts in public opinion.
The researchers also note that they could not directly track which survey participants actually saw the viral internet narratives framing the shooter as a hero. They can only observe that the timing of the arrest aligned with the shift in attitudes. Future research should aim to test the exact psychological mechanisms at play. Scientists need to explore how people process moral framing in the media and how these narratives directly interact with personal grievances.
The study, “Partisan Differences in Support for Political Violence: Results from a Natural Experiment in the United States,” was authored by Chiara Vargiu and Alessandro Nai.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PartisanViolence #PoliticalNarratives #PublicOpinion #Democrats #Liberals #Political Violence #VargiuNai #PublicOpinionQuarterly #MangioneCase #AttackPolitics
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DATE: July 20, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The “folk hero” narrative surrounding Luigi Mangione increased Democrats’ support for violence against Republicans, study finds
A recent study published in Public Opinion Quarterly suggests that highly publicized, morally framed acts of violence can influence public attitudes toward political aggression. The research provides evidence that the arrest of Luigi Mangione, following the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer, led to an increase in support for partisan violence among Democrats.
The study was conducted by Chiara Vargiu, an assistant professor of political communication at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Alessandro Nai, an associate professor of political communication and journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Vargiu and Nai also co-authored the 2026 book The Psychology of Attack Politics: Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects. Their research regularly examines political hostility and how it shifts public opinion.
“In our research, my co-author and I have looked at different forms of aggressive political rhetoric, focusing, among other things, on when and why citizens come to see it as acceptable,” Vargiu said. “But over the past few years, we have witnessed not just aggressive rhetoric, but numerous episodes of actual political violence.”
“In a polarized context, such as the US, where political opponents are increasingly seen as enemies or threats (partly due to that same aggressive rhetoric we have been studying), this raises the question of how people respond to such violence,” Vargiu explained. The political landscape in the United States features rising polarization and occasional acts of politically motivated aggression. In this environment, scholars want to understand what drives ordinary citizens to justify violence against political opponents.
“There are longstanding theories in social psychology suggesting that violence on one’s in-group generates hostile reactions toward the group seen as responsible, sometimes to the point of supporting aggression in return,” Vargiu noted. “But the actual research on this is a bit mixed, with recent studies not finding evidence for such a retaliatory response in the context of inter-partisan violence.”
Previous research into attacks on political figures showed that such events do not usually increase the public appetite for violence among the victims’ supporters. Supporters of victimized politicians tend to pull back from endorsing aggressive tactics. The December 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson presented a completely different scenario. The perpetrator, Luigi Mangione, targeted a corporate executive rather than a politician or elected official.
The health insurance industry is highly unpopular among many Americans, who view it as a broken and exploitative system. A public narrative quickly emerged online that framed the shooter as a vigilante fighting back against institutional corruption. The researchers had a unique opportunity to test how this specific narrative impacted partisan animosity. “We happened to be in the field with a survey when the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination occurred, which allowed us to explore this question directly,” Vargiu said.
To explore this dynamic, the scientists used data from a two-wave survey of American adults. The first wave took place between September 4 and November 5, 2024, and included 3,100 respondents. A second wave followed from November 6 to December 17, 2024, retaining 2,479 of those participants. The researchers worked with the polling company YouGov to recruit a sample that reflected the demographic makeup of the country based on factors like age, gender, and education.
The survey utilized a rolling cross-section design. This means that small, random subsets of participants were invited to take the survey every other day over a span of time. This method is highly beneficial for studying unexpected events. It avoids the problem of people choosing to take a survey simply because a major news story broke. It allows researchers to compare the attitudes of people who took the survey just before a specific event to those who took it immediately afterward.
The assassination occurred on December 4, right in the middle of the second wave of data collection. A few days later, on December 9, authorities arrested and publicly identified Mangione. The researchers used these two dates as specific dividing lines to measure shifts in public opinion.
During the survey, participants read a hypothetical newspaper article to measure their tolerance for political violence. The text described a man violently attacking a political opponent with a baseball bat following an ideological argument. Respondents then answered five questions using a scale from 0 to 100 to indicate their level of support for the fictional attacker. They rated whether they could support the act, if the violence could be justified, and if they believed the attacker was likely provoked.
Participants also rated if such things happen all the time in America, and whether the perpetrator should face criminal charges. The scientists combined these answers to create an overall index of support for partisan violence. When looking at the entire group of respondents, the overall support for political violence did not change much. Splitting the data by political affiliation, however, revealed a different pattern.
“First, violence itself didn’t immediately trigger more support for violence,” Vargiu told PsyPost. “In fact, right after the killing, Democrats actually became slightly less supportive of partisan violence, not more.”
“The shift only happened later, after Luigi Mangione was arrested and identified, and public discourse began reframing him as a ‘folk hero,'” Vargiu noted. “That suggests that it wasn’t the act of violence itself that mattered most, but the narrative that followed.”
The reaction to the corporate executive’s murder also crossed over into the political sphere. “Second, and maybe more unsettling: even though the killing was not explicitly linked to partisan politics (the victim wasn’t a politician and the shooter wasn’t acting on behalf of either party) people still filtered it through a partisan lens,” Vargiu explained.
“Democrats became more supportive of violence against Republicans specifically, not violence in general. This shows that in a country as polarized as the US currently is, a formally non-partisan act of violence can still generate partisan reactions.”
“Third, the direction of that shift is itself telling,” Vargiu said. “We might have expected Republicans, whose side was more associated with the victim, to become more supportive of retaliatory violence (acting in defense of their own side). But that is not what happened.”
“Instead, it was Democrats, whose views aligned more closely with the perpetrator’s cause, who became more supportive of violence,” Vargiu explained. “This suggests that public acceptance of political aggression may have less to do with in-group defense, and more to do with hostility toward the opposing side. That is, people may not become more willing to endorse violence because their side was attacked, but because they already feel enough animosity toward the other side that violence against them seems justified.”
To analyze the data over time, the scientists also used an interrupted time series analysis. This statistical technique examines data collected at multiple points in time before and after a specific intervention to detect any changes in the underlying trend. The analysis confirmed that Democrats became more likely over time to say the hypothetical attacker was provoked, specifically after Mangione’s arrest.
To ensure their findings were accurate, the scientists tested additional psychological and personal factors. They looked at whether a general desire for social chaos, feelings of relative deprivation, or a person’s physical health status played a role in how they answered. The concept of Need for Chaos describes a desire to disrupt or overturn established social hierarchies.
Individuals with a high need for chaos showed an increased tendency to justify the hypothetical violence and were less likely to want criminal charges for the fictional attacker. Participants reporting poor physical health also displayed more support for the fictional violence, possibly reflecting negative personal experiences with the medical system. Even after accounting for these variables, the partisan differences remained a consistent finding across the analysis.
The researchers note that this data requires appropriate context to avoid misinterpretations. “We want to be very clear that our results should not be read as ‘Democrats are violent’ or ‘liberals are more prone to political violence,'” Vargiu cautioned. “That would be a misinterpretation of both our data and the broader research on this topic.”
“In fact, prior research (including some of the work we discuss in our paper) suggests that people on the left tend to be, on average, dispositionally less inclined toward aggression, thanks to traits like empathy and openness to experience that are more common on that end of the spectrum.”
“What our findings actually show is something different, and in some ways more concerning, namely that a compelling narrative around violence can be powerful enough to shift attitudes even among groups who are generally less likely to endorse violence in the first place,” Vargiu said. “The real takeaway is that moralizing narratives about violence can move public opinion regardless of where people start out, and not that one side is inherently more violent than the other.”
It is necessary to consider the limitations of this natural experiment. The study measured stated attitudes toward a hypothetical scenario, rather than actual violent behavior in the real world. Expressing sympathy for an attacker on an anonymous survey does not necessarily mean a person would act aggressively in real life.
The specific details of the Mangione case are also highly unique and might not apply to other situations. The viral appeal of the perpetrator, the intense unpopularity of the health insurance industry, and the specific polarized climate in the United States all contributed to the public reaction. Similar acts of violence in different cultural contexts might not produce the same shifts in public opinion.
The researchers also note that they could not directly track which survey participants actually saw the viral internet narratives framing the shooter as a hero. They can only observe that the timing of the arrest aligned with the shift in attitudes. Future research should aim to test the exact psychological mechanisms at play. Scientists need to explore how people process moral framing in the media and how these narratives directly interact with personal grievances.
The study, “Partisan Differences in Support for Political Violence: Results from a Natural Experiment in the United States,” was authored by Chiara Vargiu and Alessandro Nai.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PartisanViolence #PoliticalNarratives #PublicOpinion #Democrats #Liberals #Political Violence #VargiuNai #PublicOpinionQuarterly #MangioneCase #AttackPolitics
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House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen | Norman Solomon
By Norman SolomonMore than 100 Democratic lawmakers voted against arms for Israel. They’re listening to the people – their bosses are behind
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/20/house-democrats-israel-hakeem-jeffries-schumer
#Democrats #Israel #USmidtermelections2026 #HouseofRepresentatives #USSenate #USCongress #USpolitics #USnews #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Worldnews #TheGuardian #NormanSolomon
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"Now #Maine #Democrats need to unify behind their new candidate."
You need to stop fucking telling us what to do.
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"Now #Maine #Democrats need to unify behind their new candidate."
You need to stop fucking telling us what to do.
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Maine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate race – US politics live
By Yohannes LoweFormer state legislator in strong position to become Democratic candidate after several appointments drop out over the weekend
#Democrats #Maine #USnews #DonaldTrump #Trumpadministration #USmidtermelections2026 #TheGuardian #YohannesLowe
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Maine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate race – US politics live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/20/maine-democrats-troy-jackson-senate-graham-platner-donald-trump-immigration-world-cup-us-politics-latest-news-updates #Democrats #Maine #UsNews #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #UsMidtermElections2026
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Maine Democrats rally around Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner in crucial Senate race – US politics live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/20/maine-democrats-troy-jackson-senate-graham-platner-donald-trump-immigration-world-cup-us-politics-latest-news-updates #Democrats #Maine #UsNews #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #UsMidtermElections2026
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Michigan got me on the edge of my seat.
#democracy #democrats #elections #senate #aoc
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Michigan got me on the edge of my seat.
#democracy #democrats #elections #senate #aoc
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116949230973771874
Just like MAGA they want to be victims so bad. Who has tried to expel Zohran from the party? Then they wonder why the people they promote turn out to be fraudulent right wing scumbags like Fetterman, Sinema, and Tulsi.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116949230973771874
Just like MAGA they want to be victims so bad. Who has tried to expel Zohran from the party? Then they wonder why the people they promote turn out to be fraudulent right wing scumbags like Fetterman, Sinema, and Tulsi.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116949230973771874
Just like MAGA they want to be victims so bad. Who has tried to expel Zohran from the party? Then they wonder why the people they promote turn out to be fraudulent right wing scumbags like Fetterman, Sinema, and Tulsi.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116949230973771874
Just like MAGA they want to be victims so bad. Who has tried to expel Zohran from the party? Then they wonder why the people they promote turn out to be fraudulent right wing scumbags like Fetterman, Sinema, and Tulsi.
#Democrats #DNC #WorkingClass #Trump #eattherich #Mamdani #AOC #KamalaHarris #ChuckSchumer #HakeemJeffries #BernieSanders #BarackObama
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116948221522681547
this is a post about #democrats relationship to #republicans
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116948221522681547
this is a post about #democrats relationship to #republicans
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