Why Republicans Take Jan. 6 Less Seriously Than Other Americans
FiveThirtyEight tells us that Republican voters see 1/6 differently but make no guess as to why.
This hints at a big reason why Republicans seem to take Jan. 6 less seriously than other Americans: They simply subscribe to a different reality of what happened that day. For instance, a December poll from the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that while 64 percent of adults overall thought the events of Jan. 6 were extremely or very violent, only 39 percent of Republicans thought so. And according to a YouGov/Yahoo News poll from Dec. 18-22, 50 percent of Republicans believed the rioters were primarily peaceful and law-abiding, while only 33 percent believed they were primarily violent and lawless. Finally, YouGov/the University of Massachusetts found that while Americans overall thought politicians’ lives were probably or definitely at harm on Jan. 6 (58 percent to 43 percent), Republicans thought they probably or definitely were not (72 percent to 28 percent).
A sizable share of Republicans even buy into the conspiracy theory that Jan. 6 was a false-flag operation perpetrated by liberals. YouGov/CBS News found that 41 percent of Republicans believed that “most of those who forced their way into the Capitol were left-leaning groups pretending to be Trump supporters.” And according to a Jan. 2-4 poll from YouGov/The Economist, Republicans believed 51 percent to 26 percent that Trump opponents were involved in the riot, 59 percent to 14 percent that antifa was involved and 52 percent to 23 percent that Black Lives Matter was involved. By contrast, Americans on the whole believe that these groups were not involved and instead largely put the blame for Jan. 6 on Trump himself. In an average of four polls,2 55 percent of Americans said that Trump deserved at least some responsibility for the attack, while 38 percent felt he deserved a little or none.
Why do Republicans believe this? The cult's propaganda arm won't tell them about it.
Here's the Fox News front page on 1/7/2022. All other news sites have something about 1/6 not Fox.
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