The above claim goes to a BlueSky post containing a screenshot of a statistic comparing the acceptance of individuals who self-indetified as “very conservative” or “very liberal” as their source for their claim. The source is from today.yougov.com and published on Sept. 12, 2025. YouGov is an international public opinion platform, primarily about economic and political opinions, and it is in partnership with universities such as Cambridge. According to the site, information is peer-reviewed by third parties, and while founded by conservatives in the UK, is primarily nonpartisan in its overall content. The survey was conducted by YouGov itself, and this is a direct quote from the article page of the methodology used to gather the presented data.
“One Daily Questions survey was conducted online on September 10, 2025. among 2,646 U.S. adults. A second was conducted September 11 among 4,028 U.S. adults. A third was conducted September 12 among 3,004 U.S. adults. The samples were weighted according to gender, age, race, education, U.S. census region, and political party. The margin of error for the first survey is approximately 2.5%; for the second it is approximately 3%; for the third it is approximately 2.5%.”
The study was conducted by senior data researcher David Montgomery, who has previously worked for Minnesota Public Radio and CItyLab. Other credentials are not listed.
According to a peer-reviewed and cross-referenced research study conducted by Miku Matsunaga at the University of London and published by the European Journal of Political Research, right-wing voters in general are more likely to justify political violence than left wing voters, while centre-right voters and non-voters are not prone to justifying political violence.
I start with a null model to check the interclass correlation coefficient (ICC), which determines the overall variation to be attributed to the variance between the countries. In the null model (with all covariates), the ICC is 0.05, and the intercept is 1.86 (p < 0.01). Next, Table 1 reports the results of the multilevel analyses. In line with the expectation, the estimate of right-wing populist voters is 0.243 (p < 0.01). The estimates of centre-right voters and non-voters are −0.060 (p < 0.05) and −0.176 (p < 0.01). Voters of the latter two groups do not justify political violence in pursuit of their political goals. Centre-left and green ideologies have null effects. However, the average marginal effect of left-wing populists is 0.160 (p < 0.01); while the effect is smaller than that of right-wing populists, left-wing populists also tend to justify political violence…The results suggest that right-wing populists and left-wing populists are 2.7 and 1.8 percent more likely to justify political violence than other voters, respectively.”
It should also be noted that American political parties on both sides are greatly more likely to blame the other party for political violence than admit political violence occurring within their own party, as statistically shown in an article by Pew Research Center examining the perceived rise of political violence in America and its primary causes.
“77% of Republicans say left-wing extremism is a major problem in the country. Far fewer (27%) say this about right-wing extremism. Democrats’ views are nearly the reverse: 76% say right-wing extremism is a major problem, while 32% say left-wing extremism is a major problem. About half of both Republicans (49%) and Democrats (47%) say extremism from those without clear political views is a major problem.”
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8978-972X
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/23/americans-say-politically-motivated-violence-is-increasing-and-they-see-many-reasons-why/
