Post by UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention

"The study is not a catalog of monsters, and if you read it as one, you’ve missed the entire point of the last three thousand words. It’s a measurement — the first in history — of how many of our neighbors have concluded, with polling-grade precision, that we should burn it all down, so long as somebody else strikes the match." In "Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?", The Grimm Historian delves into history, math, and our team's research on political violence to explore contemporary risk for political violence and —most importantly —how America can turn away from the precipice of societal rupture. The key? The persistent, good work of ordinary people. https://lnkd.in/eYYpRuvi