Recent weeks in the US have been marked by heightened political violence, including an attack on Democratic legislators in Minnesota that resulted in the death of a state representative and her husband. Such incidents are occurring alongside national protests, with confrontations escalating to fatal outcomes. According to political scientist Robert Pape, the country is in an unprecedented era of violent populism, a trend that has worsened since the Trump administration began, with threats and acts of violence increasingly targeting politicians and activists.
The alleged murderer was planning further attacks, police said, on local politicians and abortion rights advocates.
Robert Pape, a political scientist, states, 'We are in a historically high period of American political violence... I call it our era of violent populism.'
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