the model conservative utterance for two decades has been a death threat
the model conservative utterance for two decades has been a death threat
Mainstreamed with Rush, then Gingrich & FOX. Framing politics as a temporary battle with an eventual winner.
the growth of "murdering liberals is my stated goal"-type bumperstickers and rhetoric has been steadily monotonic since the early 1980's, but yeah it was around Obama's first term when it fully tipped from gunshows and fringe voices to a mainstream statement
Sarah Palin's infamous "Lock and Load" campaign poster. After the Tuscon mass shooting, "No they're surveyor scopes"
after Gabby Giffords' shooting, "proof you can shoot a liberal in the head and not damage anything" bumperstickers
Since the John Birch society at least. They had some wild bumper stickers
Mind you, "END JUDICIAL DICTATORSHIP" has become recontextualized these days.
The soft suburbanites who think killing evildoers will make them feel something really need to talk to people who have actually killed people.