Democracy requires that we make political choices free from bullying, intimidation, or threats of violence. So it is a problem when rates of political violence go up—as they have in the United States.
Political violence includes threats, intimidation, acts of physical violence that are used with a political motivation to achieve a political goal or to assert political power over another group.
Historically marginalized communities—Black Americans, brown Americans, LGBTQ—are being disproportionately targeted with political violence in this moment, but also a number of conservatives, including those that aren't toeing the MAGA line.
Most Americans oppose violence in all contexts, but violence also threatens every other effort to strengthen democracy and freedom.
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