Political violence in US becomes new global threat: Bloomberg
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Right now is a “horrible time for an election” in the US, says Eurasia Group founder.
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President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP)
US political violence has become the world's top threat, according to consulting firm Eurasia Group’s founder and president, Ian Bremmer, during Bloomberg's podcast, In the City.
He said that right now is a “horrible time for an election” in the US, noting that political violence has soared after former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction last week.
“Unprecedented things are happening in US politics on a weekly basis, and Americans are normalizing those things. You’re just getting used to it. It’s the frog in the boiling pot. This is not a sign of a stable democracy.”
The staunch support a lot of Wall Street billionaires show for Trump, despite his new status as a convicted felon, is unsurprising, given the fact that they view "Trump is better for their money than [President Joe] Biden."
When it comes to the war on Gaza, the matter continues to pose a big risk as it also negatively impacts Biden’s election objectives, especially with how "Israel’s" far-right cabinet takes the pressure from its main ally and arms supplier, the US.
Yet, this is not new for American political violence, this is only mounting.
Back in September, a report underscored the inadequacy of state laws throughout the United States in safeguarding both voters and election workers against the "rising threat of gun violence," as stated by the Brennan Center for Justice.
This threat is connected to the escalating trend of loosening firearm regulations, increasing firearm sales, and growing distrust in the democratic process with US political leaders exacerbating the situation at hand.
Read more: US political tension could make people more inclined toward violence
The report titled "Guns and Voting" by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and Giffords, a gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who survived being shot in the head, issues a warning about the significantly altered legal landscape in which the 2024 election will take place.
Even further back in June 2023, a report by The Guardian, citing a recent survey from the University of Chicago, showed it was estimated that 4.4% of American adults find violence to be justified to restore Trump as President of the US.
Favoring political violence to restore Trump as president is one of the claimed democracy-subversive political sentiments surveyed by the Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPOST) at the University of Chicago.
The attack on Capitol Hill on January 6 was the peak manifestation of sentiments favoring political violence whereby it was seen as a threat to US "democracy".
