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As hopes fade for a bipartisan inquiry into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, its increasingly clear that the Republican base remains in thrall to the web of untruths spun by Donald Trump and perhaps even more outlandish lies, beyond those of the former presidents making.
A federal judge warned in an opinion Wednesday that Trumps insistence on the big lie that the November election was stolen from him still posed a serious threat. Presiding over the case of a man accused of storming Congress on Jan. 6, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington wrote: The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away. Six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near-daily fulminations of the former president.
But its not just the notion that the election was stolen that has caught on with the former presidents supporters. QAnon, an outlandish and ever-evolving conspiracy theory spread by some of Trumps most ardent followers, has significant traction with a segment of the public particularly Republicans and Americans who consume news from far-right sources.
Those are the findings of a poll released Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core, which found that 15% of Americans say they think that the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, a core belief of QAnon supporters. The same share said it was true that American patriots may have to resort to violence to depose the pedophiles and restore the countrys rightful order.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-now-popular-u-major-121514464.html
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Sibelius Fan
(24,396 posts)PortTack
(32,771 posts)Would venture to say at any given time in our history, they could have polled ppl on any number of crazy RW nonsense beliefs and found the same.
The media...polling companies..gotta justify their jobs
billh58
(6,635 posts)It's not a "big" number of the total population, but it could be a fairly substantial number of those who actually vote. Especially if they sway the results in States with a large amount of electoral votes.
Mosby
(16,317 posts)The proportion of US adults who are white born-again or evangelical Protestants the religious group which strives hardest to see its political agenda adopted is now 16%, down from 19% a decade ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/americans-less-christian-religion-survey-pew
Christian affiliation is way down, people instead are turning to qanon and new age movements like astrology and creation mythology.
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)They said studies show about 25% of Republicans actually believe this nonsense.
We have had a good run but its going to be a battle to save our Democracy.
All bets are off in my mind I hope the forces of good win.