The Republican Party is building a political bomb.

[ancianita]

25. This is from a K St. right wing non-profit. I'm not buying what they say they're measuring.

They say 5,000 people from their online site survey. The sampling is "weighted" to represent America, but it's too weird to beliieve. PRRI report and so the extrapolations to "Americans" in general is not believable from the getgo. And 86% of Americans reject or doubt anything Q these days. This opinion piece doesn't actually look at the polling very well, but just cherry picks percentages from the alleged representative sample.

Even the extrapolation to Republicans in general -- who are 23% of the total population -- is not believable because the bigger public polls that we've posted on DU show that a good sized number of Republicans support the Biden agenda.

Even when considering the influence of talk radio, there are 20 daily talk radio shows; nine of those are conservative.

So we don't know whether actual Republican voters were in this survey, or talk radio listeners, or if they're just religious members of PRRI, whose founder says that White Christians need a moral awakening. In general Christian morality across denominations wouldn't rest on storm & violence Q themes, anyway. Nor do we know if the rest of America is really as concerned as this opinion writer is because over half of America doesn't identify with any denomination.

An opinion piece like this tries to amplify unverifiable polling to help sell fear of a violent movement. No doubt there will be some who want a movement, but that movement right now, if it exists at all, doesn't consist of tens of millions of Republicans. 74 million who voted Republican is only 23% of the American population; 25% of that 74 mill is only 18.5 mill, not tens of millions.

So the "bomb" and "blow up" language isn't grounded in fact, if it's grounded at all.
The only group with facts of such plans has been the FBI.
So I'm not buying what the opinion piece says, either.