Republicans Still Sympathize With the Insurrection

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Max Burns
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Apr 16, 2021
Nearly half (45%) of @GOP voters say the Jan. 6 insurrectionists "had a point" when they violently attacked the United States Capitol.

Almost 8-in-10 Republicans (78%) are still convinced Joe Biden stole the 2020 election.

Republicans Still Sympathize With the Insurrection
They identify with the people who stormed the Capitol.
slate.com

Over half (51%) of @GOP voters say Congress didn't do enough to overturn the 2020 election and keep Donald Trump in power.

This cancer of disinformation is not going away. If anything, ever larger chunks of the GOP are now radicalizing in response.

This data suggest the @GOP, one of two major national parties, is at *least* half made up of people who:

- Support violent efforts to overturn elections
- Believe the current president is illegally in power
- Would *still support* Trump's forced return to power

Antidemocratic rhetoric streaming from OAN and Fox News and the @GOP itself has achieved its goal: a large plurality of self-ID'd Republicans would cheer on a public attempt by Congress/outside insurrectionists to violently remove Joe Biden.

That's a national crisis.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/republican-party-sympathize-capitol-insurrection.html

Three months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Republican Party still won’t fully renounce it. In Congress, Republicans are opposing an investigation of the attack unless other incidents are included. On Friday, sponsors of a conference at former President Donald Trump’s Miami resort proudly displayed photos of the crowd that had gathered before the attack. On Saturday, Republican donors cheered as Trump boasted about the Jan. 6 crowd and complained that his allies should have fought harder to prevent the certification of his defeat.

In recent weeks, numerous Republican lawmakers have belittled the attack, defended the mob that precipitated it (Sen. Ron Johnson called them “people that love this country”), voted against a resolution condemning it, or accused liberals of overreacting to it. In February, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, speakers blamed a “rigged election” for provoking the rioters. But the sickness goes deeper. The Republican base is thoroughly infected with sympathies for the insurrection.

In polls taken shortly after Jan. 6, roughly 15 percent of Republicans openly endorsed the rebellion. They did so even when survey questions explicitly called it an “attack,” “storming,” and “taking over” the Capitol. But other questions found broader support. Twenty-three percent of Republicans agreed that “in America today … it can be acceptable for people to use force or violence to try to achieve political goals.” Forty-two percent, when asked about the people who “took over” the Capitol, said they were “mostly peaceful.” Forty-five percent rejected the notion that “those who participated in the storming of the Capitol” were “criminals.” Instead, this half of the Republican base chose an alternative description of the invaders: “They went too far, but they had a point.” Fifty-one percent of Republicans said the party’s leaders “did not go far enough” on Jan. 6 to overturn the election. Only 27 percent called the attack terrorism, and only 19 percent called it a coup attempt.

These sentiments don’t seem to have waned. Since January, the share of Republicans who insist that President Joe Biden did not “legitimately win the election,” nearly 80 percent of the GOP, has hardly budged. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans say Trump won the election, and nearly 30 percent say they’ll “never accept” Biden as president. Two weeks ago, by a two-to-one ratio, Republicans reaffirmed their view that the election was “stolen” from Trump. Last week, 70 percent said there had been enough fraud to change the election’s outcome.

*snip*

[Scrivener7]

2. This is horrifying. On silver lining, the numbers of people who identify as republiQan are dropping

fast. So it's 45% and 78% of a dwindling number.

[Scrivener7]

11. Always this is the way. When republiQans are in office, all

the press talks about is republiQans. When Democrats are in office, all they talk about is republiQans.

[uponit7771]

13. +1,

[JI7]

4. Why wouldn't they ?

[kentuck]

5. They are building on the Big Lie...

Hoping to make it all "normal". By doing this, they rationalize their own criminal behavior in the attack upon our Capitol.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Freedom has consequences. Dealing with abject ignorance is a big one.

These are certainly trying times in our nation.
We’ve struggled (often poorly) with the darkest moments in our history and continue to deal with the hideous continuous problems of racism, sexism and bigotry today.

Press forward, keep questioning, recognizing, resisting, refusing the bad. (That’s a daily mantra, and all I’ve got today; I’m weary, but still hopeful)

Our determined character as Democrats, liberals and progressives is our strength against those who cannot or will not “see”.

[Generic Other]

7. Republicans still sympathize with Lee Harvey Oswald!

Let's be real.

[ananda]

8. They want to believe the most preposterous things...

They are so heavily invested in an alternate narrative
that does not include non-whites and liberals.

[Bmoboy]

10. People pick sides

People believe what is convenient for them to hold onto.

I do.

[ohtransplant]

12. Of course they sympathize with it. It was, and is, their creation!!!

Those who didn't actively plan and participate, stood down to allow it to happen.

It should be forever named "The Republican Insurrection of 2021' and should be hung around their necks in perpetuity.

No one should forget, no one should forgive. It's a burden they created and should wear with (dis)honor.

None should be allowed to whitewash what happened that day.