Poll Data Shows Democrats Embrace Political Violence and Anti-Democratic Means to Remove Trump
Source: M.D. Kittle. "Poll: Death Wish Dems Want Trump Dead Or Taken Out By Coup." September 22, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author argues that a recent poll proves many Democrats secretly want Trump dead or removed by a military coup, which he says exposes them as hypocrites who don't really care about democracy. He backs this up with several polls showing minorities to slim majorities of Democrats reacting 'positively' to hypothetical violent or unconstitutional scenarios involving Trump's removal.
Conclusion
Despite branding themselves as defenders of democracy, today's Democratic Party is willing to support violent or anti-constitutional means—including assassination, military coup, and improper use of the 25th Amendment—to remove Trump from power, revealing hypocrisy and a dangerous 'assassination culture.'
Premises
- A poll by Liberal Currents and the Center for Strategic Politics found roughly one-third of Democrats would feel positively about Trump being assassinated at a rally, and over half would welcome him dying in office.
- 43 percent of surveyed Democrats said they would find it 'very positive' if military leaders removed Trump from power and assumed control of the government, despite this being an unconstitutional coup.
- 74 percent would support using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump, and 75 percent would feel positive about impeachment and conviction, even though these poll respondents seem confused about basic constitutional impeachment procedures.
- A separate 2025 NCRI/Rutgers survey found 55 percent of left-leaning respondents believed assassinating Trump was somewhat justifiable, indicating a broader 'assassination culture' on the left.
- After the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, PA, a poll found a third of Democrats agreed they wished the assassin had not missed.
- Prominent Democrats like Gavin Newsom use rhetoric framing Trump as the 'gravest threat to democracy' who 'must be stopped,' which the author connects to normalizing extreme measures against him.
Assumptions
- The cited polls are methodologically sound, representative of Democratic voters generally, and not skewed by sampling or question framing.
- Expressing hypothetical positive feelings about a scenario in a poll is equivalent to actively desiring, supporting, or being willing to act on that scenario.
- Rhetorical statements by politicians like Newsom ('we must stop him') are meant literally as calls for violent or extra-constitutional action rather than political metaphor.
- The behavior/attitudes of survey respondents can be fairly generalized to characterize 'the Democratic Party' as a whole.
- There is a meaningful causal or ideological link between abstract survey responses and real-world political violence (e.g., the Butler assassination attempt).