A left-wing advocacy magazine hired this pollster to poll Democratic voters on how they would feel if they woke up to news that Trump was gone. The answers are not "we disagree with his policies." They are a civic breakdown.
87 percent would feel positive if Congress impeached him, convicted him, and removed him from office. 84 percent would feel positive if his own Cabinet declared him unfit and threw him out under the 25th Amendment. 55 percent would feel positive if he simply died in his sleep. 59 percent would feel positive if military leaders staged a coup, removed the elected commander in chief, and "assumed control of the United States."
The only scenario that nets negative is assassination at a rally. Even that one still gets 32 percent positive. Nearly one in three Democratic voters in this survey would greet the murder of a sitting president as good news.
This is not protest energy. It is a large share of one major party treating the other party's elected president as a problem to be deleted by any available method, including death and a junta. Elections, courts, and the next cycle are apparently not enough. If the other side talked this way about a Democrat, the same people would call it stochastic terrorism and demand investigations. They published this about themselves.
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.