A majority of Republicans are living in a fantasy world built around the Big Lie

[TomCADem]

This is a direct result of the co-dependent relationship that Republicans have developed with right wing propaganda, which is divorced from reality. Republican politicians have discovered that they can generate primary votes and donations by leaning into the more extreme lies spread on right wing media and social media. Indeed, by repeating these conspiracies, they validate them.

Of course, it is a bit of an arms race, because another Republican will always stand ready to one-up the last one in the race to be crazy. Likewise, having cultivated a racist audience to support Republicans, Fox found itself being out-crazied by outlets like Newsmax and OANN. Thus, even right wing media is now in an arms race to generate greater and greater outrage.

This is all very dangerous for our Democracy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-majority-of-republicans-are-living-in-a-fantasy-world-built-around-the-big-lie/ar-AAKmNIP?li=BB141NW3

According to a new national poll from Reuters/Ipsos, we don't have that. Consider these data points:

* Fully 53% of Republicans in the poll said that Donald Trump was the "true" president while 47% said Joe Biden, who is the actual president.

* Another 56% of Republicans say that the results of the 2020 election were "the result of illegal voting or election rigging."

* More than 6 in 10 GOPers either "strongly" (39%) or "somewhat" (22%) agreed with the statement that the 2020 election "was stolen from Donald Trump."

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. Republicnas are not 50% of the electorate.

Keep in mind when talking heads tout these numbers, 25% of voters identify as Republicans. Do the math accordingly.

This is the 15% hard core fascist right winger.

How many Independents believe the Big Lie?

[Demovictory9]

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