A new poll shows that women are more likely than men to believe that political assassination is at least somewhat justified.
The Daily Wire reported that a new Network Contagion Research Institute poll shows that conservative women are 20 percent more likely than men to believe that the political assassination of a prominent left-wing leader is justified, while liberal women are 14 percent more likely than men to believe that the political assassination of a prominent right-wing leader is justified.
According to The Daily Wire, the poll was conducted with the use of CloudResearch Prime Panels to obtain a representative sample of American adults across the country. Participants were asked to rate “How unjustified or justified would someone be if they killed Zohran Mamdani?” and “How unjustified or justified would someone be if they killed Donald Trump?”
“Contrary to conventional assumptions that political violence is more closely associated with
male respondents, we observe a reversal of this pattern in expressed justification,” the Network Contagion Research Institute stated. “Female respondents were more likely than male respondents to tolerate some degree of justification for the murder of both Mamdani and Trump.”
The Network Contagion Research Institute noted that the poll suggests that “support for political violence in this context does not conform to traditional gender-based expectations.”
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Joel Finkelstein, co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, told The Daily Wire that the surprising information obtained in the recent poll is the fact that the individuals who supported the justification of political assassinations were from all demographics and persuasions.
“We dug into the data because this felt like it was describing a deeper moral crisis,” Finkelstein said. “We assumed young men would be driving this, given unemployment, disengagement, and declining graduation rates. That’s why we explicitly examined gender. What surprised us, honestly shocked us, was that women were more likely to show tolerance for political violence.”
While data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows that women have been responsible for only about 13 percent of all murders in the past five years, the Network Contagion Research Institute poll found that 57.1 percent of women believe that the political assassination of President Donald Trump would be at least somewhat justified, compared to 50.1 percent of men. Additionally, 54.7 percent of women believe that the political assassination of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would be at least somewhat justified, compared to 45.2 percent of men.
“Over the past decade, women, especially younger women have become more politically polarized, more emotionally moralized, and more immersed in online political identity formation,” Finkelstein stated. “That shift predates our study. What we’re seeing now may be the downstream effect of those longer-term changes.”
