The Auron MacIntyre Show Assassination Culture: How To Make It Stop | Guest: J. Burden | 4/27/26
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Apr 27, 2026 
J. Burden, political commentator and podcaster, offers sharp analysis on rising political violence and security failures. They examine links between rhetoric and attacks. Conversations cover intelligence lapses, asymmetric soft-power tactics, radicalization pathways, and why current incentives allow violence to persist.
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Assassination Attempts Are Becoming Normalized
- Political assassination attempts on Trump have become frequent enough to be normalized in media and public reaction.
- Auron Macintyre frames repeated attempts as evidence of an emerging "assassination culture" that the mainstream and conservatives ignore.
Fear And Consequence Beat Fortresses
- J Burden argues rulers gain security more from being feared than from fortresses or stricter event security.
- He uses Machiavelli to claim deterrence requires visible, credible consequences for attackers, not just physical barriers.
Rhetoric Creates Self Defense Narratives
- Burden links attacker manifestos and online rhetoric to a one-sided left-wing campaign framing Trump as an existential threat.
- He notes this rhetoric normalizes self-defense narratives that inspire stochastic lone-actor attacks.