“A time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.”

 

 take the law into one's own hands

(法律の力を借りずに)勝手に制裁を加える、リンチを加える

rank and file

平社員の、(指導者でない)一般組合員の、庶民・一般大衆の、(将校ではない)一兵卒の

kazukazu88さんがリツイート

アメリカにおける反民主主義の感情は、トランプの支持・不支持よりも人種間対立の要素の方が強く出るとの研究結果が出たとのこと。良く言われることだが、トランプは原因ではなく、今のアメリカが抱える問題の表象。https://t.co/ggtyci33Ko

— Kazuto Suzuki (@KS_1013) October 11, 2020

 In addition, 41.3 percent agreed that “A time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.”

“Second, those attitudes are firmly grounded in what I call ‘ethnic antagonism’ — especially concerns that Blacks and immigrants and Latinos are too powerful and getting more than their fair share of government resources. 

 There is also the possibility that anti-democratic sentiment in the Republican rank-and-file will encourage the president or other political elites to engage in anti-democratic behavior.

アメリカは暴力社会なのかね？