Also some nuances to consider. People who say ''eat the rich'' typically do not enact violence against the rich.
Funny enough, the people who say "eat the rich" spend a bunch of their time enacting violence against the poor and middle class, as their neighborhoods are more accessible for riots.
but Pence didn't hang only because his attackerd didn't get to him while no one even tried to nibble on Elon's flesh.
That noose was like 2 feet long, on a 5 foot platform, held together by like 4 nails. You literally could not hang someone from it.
Are the people saying "eat the rich" storming a rich person's home, breaking windows, beating up police?
No, but not for lack of trying. A lot of these people are stupid enough to think that burning down churches and breaking in store fronts are attacks on the rich, and they've pulled that crap many, many times. Republican offices are regularly vandalized and occasionally genuinely attacked.
We all know you're desperate to normalize this...
That's where you're wrong. It's not normal, normal people don't act like that, crazy people act like that. I have no fear of any mass movement of Republicans to act like that because we're mostly normal non-crazy people. Your fear is projection, because you're all just as crazy as those people, and would not only defend but endorse political violence by those you perceive to be on your side. There are people in this forum (I forget which thread, they're all kinda blurred at the moment) actively wishing that political violence was more normalized. It's not any of the right-leaning users saying that, it's your people.