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# If Trump Loses, Expect Violence
March 23 2020
Written by Justin Ward.
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**WHAT THEY’RE SAYING**--Should Trump lose the 2020 election, someone is going to die. The offices of a left-wing organization will be bombed. A mosque will get shot up. Someone’s skull will crack open in street battles. Possibly all three. While such a macabre prediction might strike readers as alarmist, it’s an outcome so probable it approaches absolute certainty.
Trump’s presidency is the apotheosis of what historian Richard Hofstadter dubbed the “[paranoid style of American politics](https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/).” For nearly two decades since 9/11, this toxic strain of conspiratorial thought has metastasized, moving from the fringes to the center. It brought Trump to office, and he nurtured it once in power.
Post-election violence will be the rational result of an irrational worldview. Trump’s most ardent supporters are the very same people who spent the Obama years [stockpiling guns](https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2016/04/12/the-gun-industry-says-it-has-grown-158-since-obama-took-office/#3f2ead227f4e) and [forming militias](https://mashable.com/2016/01/04/obama-anti-government-militias/). To them, the 2016 election represented hope that they were going to finally “take the country back” from the evil forces embodied by the “[Kenyan Muslim socialist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/26/obama-jokes-about-being-a-socialist-kenya-born-muslim-at-every-whcd/?utm_term=.cb71d690257d).” To one who lives in a reality where the true “[voice](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/22/trump_to_disaffected_americans_i_am_your_voice_131285.html)” of the people is being subverted by a Deep State globalist cult of [spirit-cooking](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/spirit-cooking-explained-satanic-ritual-or-fun-dinner.html) pedophiles who [murder children by the thousands](https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/428873-democrats-are-not-the-party-of-infanticide), violence is not only justified—it’s a moral imperative. [(Read the rest.)](https://medium.com/@justinward/if-trump-loses-expect-violence-b84dc2cd6527)
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