We then asked about their support for *others* carrying out aggressive and violent actions against that individual. We also asked which action, including aggressive and non-aggressive actions, they'd most want others to carry out against that person. Dems consistently more supportive of aggression.

Some new data in on support for political aggression and violence... First, we asked people who they think is doing the most harm in American politics. Clear agreement among Democrats but more variation among Republicans - and some surprising responses.

In a pre-reg experiment in a working paper (with @llopez.bsky.social & Lucas Lothamer), we find support for partisan aggression and violence is rare. But we find more than 2x support when targeted at who the respondent thinks is doing the most harm in politics. 3/4 scottaclifford.com/wp-content/u...

Oops, accidentally cut off the legend in the second post. Here's the full figure.

To our surprise, we found little role for the strength of partisan identity, even with a multi-item social identity scale. Partisan strength also didn't condition the effect of policy disagreement. So, while policy views matter, this seems largely independent of partisan strength. 3/

Policy attitudes only predict support for violence among those who are high in trait aggression. Trait aggression itself is only a strong predictor of support for violence in the presence of policy disagreement. So we shouldn't think about the role of trait aggression as a "non-political" factor. 2/