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| Our exclusive survey reveals that a majority of Republicans believe the January 6 insurrection was an |
| 2022-04-20 |
| [NewRepublic] In one way or another, the scholars and journalists in The New Republic’s special May issue all examine the state of democracy here or abroad. It is their work to diagnose and prognosticate, to analyze and warn. And to them, the situation is plain: Our system of government is crumbling. Around the world, autocracy looms. The tasks ahead could not be more urgent. But what of the people who are not necessarily glued to the news, whose jobs do not require them to track, in detail, every grotesque new contrivance of the Republican Party, every vain counter by the Democrats? How worried are they? Interestingly, the Republican rank and file is split about what January 6, 2021, represents. Although most Republicans in our poll described the events of that day as patriotic, a hefty minority said what happened was an insurrection—a dissensus, it should be underscored, that isn’t reflected among Republican Party leadership, which has been overwhelmingly reluctant to condemn the incident. "I don’t know whether we should take a lot of comfort in knowing there are still 43 percent of Republicans who think that was wrong," Molyneux reflected, "or despair that it's only 43 percent." Poll results at the bottom of the link. |
| Posted by:Vespasian Ebboting9735 |
| #9 Interesting poll numbers from a crazy left rag. Article was a little hateful towards those on the right... |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-04-20 15:45 |
| #8 back in the 80s and early 90s THR was occasionally interesting even heterodox sometimes. Then it got more and more lefty. In 2012 a leftist Facebook founder got control and two years later the magazine had become a shadow of itself. Then in 2016 a new owner took over and tried to mix the standard leftism with some quirky stuff. In 2019 they did a quirky op ed satire commenting on Buttigieg. That got retracted. Their circulation is now so low nobody is willing to say what it is. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-04-20 14:26 |
| #7 Highlight fixed, Vespasian Ebboting9735. You’ll get to the top of this particular learning curve soon, I suspect. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-04-20 11:57 |
| #6 I screw up that hilite every time. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-04-20 08:23 |
| #5 #4 New Republlic is a commie-symp propaganda tool. How did they even find Republicans? The same way they claim Bill Maher is a conservative. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-04-20 08:05 |
| #4 New Republlic is a commie-symp propaganda tool. How did they even find Republicans? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-04-20 07:15 |
| #3 How many "Republicans" compare 6Jan with the burning cities full of 'mostly peaceful' Antifa/BLM and think: "It was stupid, childish and unlawful but...". |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-04-20 04:40 |
| #2 A carefully orchestrated channeling of Trump supporters into arrest and detention zones. Note the continued attempt to hold Donald Trump responsible for the violence. Nothing in Washington D.C. is ever totally as it seems. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-20 00:46 |
| #1 No shit. Trouble was that the Alamo was being run by the |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2022-04-20 00:26 |