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Republican Party lost core supporters after the attack on Capitol
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2022/10/republican-party-lost-core-supporters-after-the-attack-on-capitol/Republican Party lost core supporters after the attack on Capitol
The attack on the US Congress building in January 2021 was a violent manifestation of the deep political polarization in the US. Now Danish research shows that this attack caused even loyal party members to distance themselves from their party.
Five people were killed and many more serious injured when Trump supporters attacked the congressional building on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. In the immediate aftermath, the Republican Party lost core supporters in great numbers. This is documented by three researchers from the Department of Political Science in a new study.
"The attack on Congress caused a large drop in people who outwardly identified with the Republican Party and Donald Trump – without re-identification in the following weeks," says associate professor Frederik Hjorth, who is one of the authors behind the study. The others are Gregory Eady, assistant professor, and Peter Thisted Dinesen, professor.
The researchers' findings indicate that there are limits to party loyalty:
"A violent attack on democratic institutions limits party loyalty, even among core supporters. There is therefore a measurable cost to encouraging or even exercising political violence," Frederik Hjorth assesses.
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The attack on the US Congress building in January 2021 was a violent manifestation of the deep political polarization in the US. Now Danish research shows that this attack caused even loyal party members to distance themselves from their party.
Five people were killed and many more serious injured when Trump supporters attacked the congressional building on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. In the immediate aftermath, the Republican Party lost core supporters in great numbers. This is documented by three researchers from the Department of Political Science in a new study.
"The attack on Congress caused a large drop in people who outwardly identified with the Republican Party and Donald Trump – without re-identification in the following weeks," says associate professor Frederik Hjorth, who is one of the authors behind the study. The others are Gregory Eady, assistant professor, and Peter Thisted Dinesen, professor.
The researchers' findings indicate that there are limits to party loyalty:
"A violent attack on democratic institutions limits party loyalty, even among core supporters. There is therefore a measurable cost to encouraging or even exercising political violence," Frederik Hjorth assesses.
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