Episode 12: Playing with Fire: Election Violence in the U.S. in 2024 & Beyond

Episode 12: Playing with Fire: Election Violence in the U.S. in 2024 & Beyond

Dave Brown

Guest

Timothy Hoyt, Jacob Ware

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Professor Jacob Ware joins host Col. Dave Brown and Dr. Timothy Hoyt to discuss both current manifestations of and potential future episodes of election violence in this presidential election cycle. Quoting from one of Professor Ware's recent articles, "counterterrorism scholars and analysts have predicted for [some time] that the 2024 presidential election would provide a particularly volatile flashpoint for election violence. The near-assassination of Trump demonstrates the accuracy of these concerns—but they are only part of the story."

The conversation ranges from how political rhetoric framed in existential terms drives these outcomes, the staggering percentages of the U.S. polity that feel violence might be necessary to fix U.S. political problems, and identifies potential target orientations before, during, and after the election. This timely discussion focuses on the growth and significance of both realized and potential political violence in our country as we move into this important election season, and beyond.

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Guests:

Timothy D. Hoyt, Ph.D. – Co-Host
Senior Professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s Strategy and Policy Department. Professor Hoyt holds the John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism and Academic Director of the Advanced Strategist Program. Publications include articles on the war on terrorism in South Asia, the limits of military force in the global war on terrorism, military innovation and warfare in the developing world, and the impact of nuclear weapons on recent crises in South Asia. He is currently working on a book on American military strategy in the 21st Century, and a study of the strategy of the Irish Republican Army from 1913-2005.

Jacob Ware
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he studies domestic and international terrorism and counterterrorism. Together with Bruce Hoffman, he is the author of God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America. In addition to his work at CFR, Ware is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he teaches a class on domestic terrorism, as well as at DeSales University. He also serves on the editorial boards for the academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and was a spring 2024 visiting fellow at the University of Oslo's Center for Research on Extremism.

Episode Length

1:13:49

File Size

173 MB

File Format

MP3

Release Date

10-2024

Keywords

U.S. Naval War College, Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups, CIWAG, Irregular Warfare, IW, Timothy Hoyt, Jacob Ware, Trident, Political Violence, Election Violence, Presidential Election, Assassination Attempt, Domestic Terrorism, Military Extremism, God Guns and Sedition, Far-Right, White Supremacists, neo-Nazi, Militias, Ideology, Radicalization, Aryan Nation, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Lone Wolf Attack, Lone Actor Attack, Racism, American Democracy, Conspiracy Theory, anti-Semitic, Homophobic, Antigovernment, Great Replacement Theory, Political Rhetoric, Illegal Immigration, AI/Deepfakes, Far-Left, Jihadist “Horseshoe”

Episode 12: Playing with Fire: Election Violence in the U.S. in 2024 & Beyond

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