"Dark Winter" is coming
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86 45 is mostly a dog-whistle for Leftists on twitter, though it's not necessarily a death threat in particular.
To 86 something in the American vernacular is to simply remove it. In old mafia lingo, it could be said to kill someone as a stand in for words like "remove". It's a bit of a stretch to say that she was dog-whistling to kill him, but "86 45" was Leftist Twitter's attempt at a meme.
Is it? I've never heard the term before this incident.
As the guy above you said. Its old old organized crime lingo (as in Prohibition era). The mob always used to use code words for shit so they could claim innocence of crimes. I'm only familiar with it because I used to read lots of mob related fiction.