{"id":1771,"date":"2024-01-19T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/as-the-election-looms-we-must-be-alert-to-trumps-threats-of-vigilante-justice-robert-reich\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:20:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:20:32","slug":"as-the-election-looms-we-must-be-alert-to-trumps-threats-of-vigilante-justice-robert-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/as-the-election-looms-we-must-be-alert-to-trumps-threats-of-vigilante-justice-robert-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump\u2019s threats of vigilante justice | Robert Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a direct and alarming link between Trump\u2019s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats in America<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has galvanized an army of vigilantes who are casting a fearsome shadow over<strong> <\/strong>the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to know how large this potential army is, but last October <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6328179\/political-violence-jan-6-extremism\/\">41%<\/a> of pro-Trump Americans agreed with the statement that \u201cbecause things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.\u201d (That view was shared by 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/19\/donald-trump-threats-vigilante-justice-2024-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a direct and alarming link between Trump\u2019s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats in America Donald Trump has galvanized an army of vigilantes who are casting a fearsome shadow over the 2024 election. It\u2019s impossible to know how large this potential army is, but last October 41% of pro-Trump &#8230; <a title=\"As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump\u2019s threats of vigilante justice | Robert Reich\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/as-the-election-looms-we-must-be-alert-to-trumps-threats-of-vigilante-justice-robert-reich\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump\u2019s threats of vigilante justice | Robert Reich\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}