Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee revealed that violent deaths among Americans increase during Republican presidencies in a study spanning over a century.
Starting in 1900 and ending in 2010, Lee looked at both Democratic and Republican presidencies. There were 12 Republican presidents over that length of time and during each of their tenures violent deaths rose, while decreasing under Democratic administrations.
I did a study that showed consistently, over 110 years, Republican presidencies increase violent death rates, while Democratic presidencies decrease them. Same with economic variables. Ordinarily, we would label one disease and the other health. https://t.co/sqZdFpsAT6
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 22, 2020
Lee also provided handy graphs showing the rise and fall of violent deaths over the course of Republican and Democratic presidencies. The results are truly startling and damning.
https://t.co/tx0ABgBP5f pic.twitter.com/L1M3ySuoG8
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 22, 2020
If we stacked them against each other: pic.twitter.com/ereuViOwFj
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 22, 2020
Even Lee was shocked.
I initially did not wish to do this study, but my mentor, the renowned violence expert James Gilligan, insisted on it. So I entered party like any other variable, and I nearly fell out of my chair! Controlling for all other variables, the party difference was decisive.
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 22, 2020
You do not ordinarily think of the difference of party as a difference of death versus life, and yet here it is….
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 22, 2020
And it’s likely that violent deaths have exploded under Trump’s watch and could get even worse as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the nation and the threat of more conflicts overseas remains high because of Trump’s desperate obsession with Iran and North Korea.
Americans should take this study seriously and understand who is killing them, and it is NOT the Democrats. Remember that next time you step into the voting booth.
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