GOP and Democrats divided over Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump's culpability, Post-UMD poll finds.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the assault, amid more universal signs of flagging pride in the workings of democracy at home, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

Partisan divisions related both to the Jan. 6 assault and the 2020 presidential election color nearly every issue raised in the survey, from how much violence occurred at the Capitol that day to the severity of the sentences handed down to convicted protesters to whether President Biden was legitimately elected. Only on a question about injured law enforcement officers is there broad bipartisan agreement.

The percentage of Americans who say violent action against the government is justified at times stands at 34 percent, which is considerably higher than in past polls by The Post or other major news organizations dating back more than two decades. Again, the view is partisan: The new survey finds 40 percent of Republicans, 41 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats saying violence is sometimes justified.

Read full Post-UMD poll results



On Jan. 6, the day Congress was to ratify the 2020 electoral college vote, Trump claimed at a rally near the White House that the election had been rigged and urged his followers to “fight like hell” to stop what he said was a stolen outcome. Many of his supporters walked to the Capitol from the rally and took part in the violence.

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[Skittles]

1. fucking hypocrites

try to imagine what repukes would be saying if the majority of the Jan 6 yahoos were black

[empedocles]

2. The word 'never'?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. If the DOJ isnt right now preparing to indict trump and the others...it is over.

MAYBE the DA of Manhattan will save us or the NY State courts, but even then it is just trump they will be taking down.

There is an entire infrastructure now of fascists who are supported by the vast majority of the GOP.

[SCantiGOP]

4. I believe violence is justified in some cases

If an openly fascist party gained power, suspended the Constitution and began locking up “radicals” like Democratic Congressional members and liberal media people, I think any Democrat would say violence was justified and even necessary.

I remember dorm discussions during the height of the anti-war activity in the early 70s, and most of us thought that actions against Selective Service offices and even some defense contractors could be justified, but very few said general violence to change the government was morally acceptable as long as two conditions existed: 1, you had the right to change the government at the ballot box and, 2, you had the right to leave the country if you chose to.

I do realize Yes votes in this poll are in no way giving an answer with that nuance or reasoning.