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Midterm gift: GOP defends homegrown terrorist attack on homeland as 'legitimate political discourse'
Which brings me to what could prove to be a game changer in the midterms: The Republican National Committee voting Friday to endorse the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as "legitimate political discourse." The language was included in a resolution censuring Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for their work on the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The RNC’s defense of the Jan. 6 attackers is a stunning misread of how the American public feels about the assault on the Capitol and those who perpetrated it. As I wrote earlier this week, while Americans sometimes disagree about who exactly is responsible for the attack and what to call it, there isn't much love among the vast majority of Americans for the perpetrators.
A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 72% of Americans say the people who took part in the Capitol attack were "threatening democracy." A Daily Kos/Civiqs poll last July found that 75% of voters believe the perpetrators of the assault should be arrested, including 51% who favor arresting everyone who broke into the Capitol and 24% who favor arresting anyone who injured others or caused property damage.
So taking up the cause of the Jan. 6 attackers is a huge political liability for the Republican Party in a midterm that will be decided in a narrow slice of swing districts and states across the country. As much as the group may be "very special" to Donald Trump, they are not a sympathetic group to the rest of the country.
The RNC’s defense of the Jan. 6 attackers is a stunning misread of how the American public feels about the assault on the Capitol and those who perpetrated it. As I wrote earlier this week, while Americans sometimes disagree about who exactly is responsible for the attack and what to call it, there isn't much love among the vast majority of Americans for the perpetrators.
A recent ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 72% of Americans say the people who took part in the Capitol attack were "threatening democracy." A Daily Kos/Civiqs poll last July found that 75% of voters believe the perpetrators of the assault should be arrested, including 51% who favor arresting everyone who broke into the Capitol and 24% who favor arresting anyone who injured others or caused property damage.
So taking up the cause of the Jan. 6 attackers is a huge political liability for the Republican Party in a midterm that will be decided in a narrow slice of swing districts and states across the country. As much as the group may be "very special" to Donald Trump, they are not a sympathetic group to the rest of the country.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/5/2078747/-Midterm-gift-GOP-defends-homegrown-terrorist-attack-on-homeland-as-legitimate-political-discourse
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