More and more Republicans have decided that the Capitol riot wasn’t a riot, much less an insurrection, but rather an act of “legitimate protest,” according to a new poll
“Legitimate protesters” on January 6, 2021. Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Those who have been following the impressively methodical narrative- building of the House select committee investigating January 6 have to wonder why rank-and-file Republicans have been unmoved by the growing evidence of Donald Trump’s criminal culpability before, during, and after the Capitol riot.
The poll asked people in June 2021 and June 2022 whether each of those labels were appropriate descriptors for what transpired on Jan. 6, 2021. And the GOP shifts are pretty uniform:* While 33 percent of Republicans said in June 2021 that Jan. 6 was an insurrection, that number is now just 13 percent.* While 47 percent said it was a “legitimate protest,” that’s now up to 61 percent.
While in January 2021, 56 percent of Republicans understood Jan. 6 as an attempt “to overturn the election and keep Donald Trump in power,” that number dropped to just 33 percent by December. That’s a remarkable number of people who accepted a pretty vanilla statement about reality and then, nearly a year later, abandoned it.
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