Let’s set the record straight. Sound off in the comments if you have been threatened in real life by a republican.

Guy in a red pickup truck with a confederate flag tried running me and my partner off the road in Illinois

In early 2016, at my birthday dinner, my dad said he would shoot me if I voted for Hillary. Obviously it wasn’t a serious threat that he intended to go through with, but it was my fucking birthday, and he said it with an angry tone; not at all jokingly. I don’t talk to anyone in my family anymore.

Trans woman here , I’ve been threatened by many Republican persons , and often

I live in the south. I cannot count the number of times I have heard Republicans openly talking about shooting liberals, minorities, and the queer community. Pleasant brunch conversations about how “They need to be taken out back and dealt with”. People down here were literally making “jokes” about lynching Obama, and were just giddy to see his daughters lose their security detail so someone could murder them. Remember the whole “Osama” thing? Yeah, they wanted to see him go the same way. Practically shouted it from the rooftops. My own father was guilty of this shit.

These are the same people that erected a gallows in front of the capitol because FELLOW REPUBLICAN Mike Pence wouldn’t overturn the results of the election. They quite literally called for his execution.

FFS my uncle bragged about how his unit shot Africans because “they all have AIDS” at *Christmas Dinner*

Why do you think they’re all so hard up about 2A? If Republicans are met with violence, they only have themselves to blame. They’ve been openly violent all along.

Let’s set the record straight. Do most conservatives know someone who was violent against Democrats, different races, or LGBTQ folks? Of course not. Are most people who are violent against POC and LGBTQ folks far-right? Yes. Duh.

I live in deep red Mississippi. I had two Biden Harris stickers on my car. I have been cursed at and accosted many times. Twice I had magat rednecks try to run me off the road. The Maga cult is very violent.

That paragraph means nothing when their sub is constantly downplaying Nazi actions by the right, which they did in this very paragraph. They also praise legislation that takes away rights of people in different races, ethnicity, or LGBTQ. Even if they don’t come out and just state their hatred towards them, they are enabling “violence” by being okay with human rights being taken away. They don’t understand that though and think that this paragraph is the end-all to make them not seem like absolute garbage humans.

Had my windshield smashed with a rock while staying in a hotel in deep red Trump country. Mine was the only car in the parking lot that was damaged, and also the only one with a Biden bumper sticker.

Editing because I just thought of more:
In 2018, I participated in a “honk and wave” event with a Democratic candidate for Congress. We all stood at a busy intersection waving signs etc. It took about 10 minutes for the pickup trucks to start slowly rolling by, festooned with Trump flags. There were 3-4 of them, and they’d drive by repeatedly and slowly, staring at us. Very weird.

Another hotel incident—staying at a different hotel in the same trumpy area (I grew up there), we had a really loud youth hockey team on our floor. I went to the front desk at 10 pm to see if there was any way they could move us to a quieter room, and one of the hockey dads overheard me in the lobby. He followed me back to my room, calling me a libtard. Mind you, I’m a middle aged white woman in pajamas—no political statements on my clothes, no piercings or tattoos. I guess I was a libtard because I wanted to sleep in the hotel I was paying to sleep in?

As a white CIS man who looks conservative enough, I’ve heard people talk who assume that I’m like them. They may talk about how when liberals try to revolt, they’ll murder them with all of their guns. In a restaurant I’ve heard old people talk about how they know black people in their neighborhood are all trying to rob the upstanding white people, so if one knocks on their door, they will be prepared to pull them inside and shoot them and claim castle doctrine. They described in real graphic terms. Real murder porn. It was sickening.

A neighbor of mine, in early 2024, asked me what I thought of Mr. Biden. I started to answer. I said that I disagreed with some of his policy choices, but overall he seemed to be doing a pretty good job. The neighbor cut me off, and began screaming at me. He cursed a blue streak at me for about a minute, and finished by yelling, “I am going to shoot you. I’m going in my house to get my gun, and when I come back out I am going to shoot you.” That is an exact quote. I will never forget it.

Then he went inside, and I went to my house. I watched on camera. A couple minutes later he came outside again, carrying what looked like an AR15 rifle, and looked around. Then he went back inside.

Before that day, we had talked every few days, for a couple of decades. Since then, we haven’t talked, at all.

Go to a rural town in the south and say something positive about anyone not white or male. 

They are literally endorsed by the klan and give third Reich salutes ..

Day after election 2016. Two men in a company truck tried running me off the highway. Flipping me off and holding a handmade sign about Hillary (I had a bumper sticker on my car from the campaign). They did this about 8 times over the course of several miles. They rode my bumper then would zoom up next to me windows down screaming profanities then forcing my car to the side off the road. I was on the way to a doctor appointment as I was 6 months pregnant. Had a panic attack in the dr parking lot when I finally got there. Called the “how’s my driving” phone number from their truck and filed a complaint.

MAGA coworker was crowing about the election results and “lining the libs up against a wall next”.

This kind of thing is especially wild to me because we watched conservatives LIVE ON TV ATTACK POLICE OFFICERS!!! Shit, some of these cops may have even voted for their guy! It wasn’t even attacking people for disagreeing with them, it was attacking people for doing their fucking JOBS because in that particular instance, that job was protecting the Democrats (and Republicans!) inside that building.

Do I think most conservatives are inherently violent, like if I just decked myself out in liberal gear and walked into a Walmart in rural Mississippi do I think I’d get shot? No, I don’t. Most people in general are not personally violent/confrontational. They might snicker behind me, they might shout at me (one time in 2023 I was driving my EV back when Tesla’s were more hated by conservatives at a charging stop in Lexington, with a NY plate on it. some dude goes out of his way in his F150 to pull around to the back of the charging stop and yell at me to take my “climate bullshit back to the city”, then just drove away before I could even process what happened lol). But most people obviously are also not gonna beat you up on the spot at least when you can put a face to them, they’re in public, cameras are around, etc.

All that said, it’s clear that the violent, cruelty – loving subsection of the population has found a home in the Republican Party and Trump has given them permission to come out of the woodworks.

Gay dude here. Around 2016-2017, a guy at a party told me that his children will march on top of my grave holding their guns

Lol “let’s be completely open to our visitors here”
‘Flaired users only’

When I lived in a red area, my car had its windshield smashed and the right mirror broken within a month. My mom pointed out the equality sticker I’d placed on the bumper. No proof but highly coincidental.