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intensely polarized partisan times. questions about consumer confidence or about the country being on the right or wrong track are meant to get at people s views of the world outside of politics, but nothing lies outside of politics anymore. according to a pugh poll that shocked many, roughly half of all republicans now say that donald trump bears no responsibility for the attack on the capitol on january 6th and that he likely won the 2020 election. but do they really believe that? i wonder if they are answering a different question, one that goes something like this: will you join the mainstream media and the country s urban elites in condemning donald trump? and their answer is an emphatic no. intangible fears are today more important than objective facts. in one of the most careful scholarly analysis of the 2016 vote the university of pennsylvania s diana mutz explained in her paper that the data simply did not support the
A perception that the benefits and status people believe themselves entitled to have been wrongfully taken away by unforeseen forces motivates ‘freedom convoy’ protesters.