As the American presidential election campaign gains momentum, many Americans are worried about the risk of political violence. An opinion survey by NPR-Marist at the end of March indicated that 20% of respondents agreed that Americans must use violence to put America on the right path; 28% of Republicans in the survey agreed with this statement. In March, Donald Trump, again the Republican Party candidate for president, told a campaign rally that the people who stormed the Capitol building on 6 January 2021 to stop the certification of Joseph Biden’s election victory were patriots. In that rally, Trump also warned…
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