~Half of Republicans

[Panda Express]

55% of Republicans back family separation policy

45% of Republicans want the government to shutter “biased or inaccurate” media

52% of Republicans would support postponing the 2020 election

43% of Republicans think Obama is a Muslim

47% of Republicans believe Trump won the popular vote

46% of Republicans believe Pizzagate - leaked emails from the Clinton Campaign talked about pedophilia and child trafficking

68% of Republicans believe million of illegals voted in the 2020 election

74% of Republicans believe Obama wiretapped Trump Tower

61% of Republicans say FBI is framing Trump

44% of Republican voters agree with false claim about Trump inauguration attendance

Majority of Trump supporters 'don't believe Trump Jr attended Russian lawyer meeting'

Number of Republicans' confidence in Russia's Vladimir Putin has doubled

51% of Republicans see the media as the "enemy of the people"

51% of Republicans say fake ‘Bowling Green massacre’ justifies travel ban executive order

50% Republicans say Trump is a genius

42% Republicans think it is ok to bodyslam reporters

30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the fictional city from Aladdin

[Dr. Arch]

 

[Virginiá]

Seems like many of these Republicans literally have no idea about any of this, and are just taking the word of Hannity or Trump at face value. I mean, for some of these, you'd have to be a moron to respond the way they did, yet instead of just saying unsure or refusing to answer, they pick the answer that most closely conforms to whatever their dear leader says he believes.

Intellectual thought is dead on the right.

[ProudModerate2]

And then they wonder why many of them are classified as true DEPLORABLES.
Good God!

[Sumner 1868]

This is why talk of a Kasich clone primarying him is nonsense.

[IceSpear]

This is why talk of a Kasich clone anyone primarying him is nonsense.

[ProudModerate2]

You know ... when you see all this combined together on one page, your stomach starts to turn.
It's like these people are aliens from another planet or something.
Good work Vox.

[Fight for Trump]

Hail Trump!!!

[ProudModerate2]

Hail Trump!!!

[longtimelurker]

These folks have always been present in the United States.  But Trump awoke (oh, that word) them.  Where have they been all these years? 

What this reminds me most of is the movie Night of the Living Dead.  Let me explain.  From the film's Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead

"Radio reports explain that a wave of mass murder is sweeping across the East Coast of the United States. Ben finds a television, and he and other occupants of the house watch an emergency broadcaster report that the recently deceased have become reanimated and are consuming the flesh of the living. Experts, scientists, and the United States military fail to discover the cause, though one scientist suspects radioactive contamination from a space probe which was blown up in the Earth's atmosphere."

Trump is the space probe.  His radioactivity has reanimated the dead into zombies.  Idiocracy?  How dare you insult idiots like that.  This is Zombiocracy.

[Hammy]

Most of the polls don't mean much considering I've always believed the country is made up of horrible people (so if anything the numbers were lower than I'd expected) but the level of support for shuttering anything that doesn't support their narrative (which Trump would absolutely do) and support for postponing (re: cancelling) the next election are truly terrifying.

[BlueSwan]

This is super scary stuff. This basically confirms that AT LEAST 50% of republican voters are utter authoritarian nutcases. The real figure is probably higher due to social desirability bias. And then there are all the enablers who for various reasons - tax relief, the supreme court, tribalism - will support anyone with an R after his name. This is the path to true authoritarianism guys, make no mistake about that.

Coupled that with the fact that the left has their share of authoritarian nutters as well and things are not looking good at all.

[Koharu]

68% of Republicans believe million of illegals voted in the 2020 election

61% of Republicans say FBI is framing Trump

51% of Republicans see the media as the "enemy of the people"

These are the ones that worry me. They lay the groundwork for upending our democracy as it has been, and the fact that so many people believe it is just terrifying.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

The GOP has always had an authoritarian bent.  That's the reason that the GOP has never become the home of libertarians.  They are laissez-faire on economics, but not on social policy, and they are military interventionists.

I'm certainly concerned about some of the results, but this isn't new to me.  There are lots of folks in America that advocate just throwing criminals in prison without trial; if a cop brings them in, they're guilty.  I've met such people, and that is a scary idea, and most all of them are on the right.  But how many folks on the left would be OK with this for those who commit "crimes against women"?  How many leftist (I deliberately will not use the term "liberal" here.) feminists are OK with watering down or throwing out completely the idea of a fair trial, the ability to mount a defense, and the right of the accused to confront accusers?  Is this not scary?

What percentage of Democrats advocate the idea of having open borders by simply ordering our Border Patrol to stand down?  What percentage of Democrats oppose spending more money to oppose the upgrading of detention facilities to bring pressure to "Let 'em all in!"?  (Probably 2/3 at least if you go by Atlas.)

What percentage of Democrats believe that homosexuals are "born that way" even when there is no scientific evidence to make that assertion?  What is the likelihood that such beliefs are, in fact, narrative-driven for political reasons?

What percentage of Democrats believe that the principles of mainstream Christianity and the principles of mainstream Islam are equally oppressive toward women, even when both analysis of the Scriptures and of Christian societies vs Islamic societies refute that idea?

A better question is why Democrats seem to not be polled on their narrative-driven beliefs.

I talk to Republicans on a regular basis who are out-and-out dingbats, believing without proof some of the most outrageous assertions I can think of about Obama, liberals, etc.  And I agree that there is no reasoning with them on some of this.  I also agree that such people have always been around.

But I have also spoken to Democrats who truly believe that America is the root of all that is wrong with the World; they believe that all cultures have equal value and equal merit, and they believe that "religion" (they really mean "Christianity" when you push them) is the root of all oppression.  They believe that white people are inherently racist, and they accept, uncritically, the moral superiority of all non-white subcultures in America.  They root for our present government to fail in its objectives every bit as much as Republicans rooted for Obama to fail, regardless of the impact those failures might have on ordinary citizens.  That italicized and highlighted sentence reflects the posture of an astounding number of Atlas Democrats and Atlas Leftists.  (I attribute a good part of that to the fact that a lot of folks here are still college students and haven't experienced yet what it means to play the game of life for keeps.)

How, then, to create a spirit of moderation where none exists?  If it is true that the type of Republicans deemed abhorrent have always been around, one way to ratchet this down is to stop insisting that it's all Trump's fault, when its not.  If we want a better spirit of doing things in America, isn't Trump's cooperation (indeed, his LEADERSHIP) not essential?  Is that really so far-fetched?  Or am I far-fetched in thinking that today's left isn't as "scortched earth" oriented as their adversaries?

[KingSweden]

I’m going to ignore most of Fuzzy’s whataboutery other than concurring that unfortunately a lot of this didn’t start with Trump and that he’s the natural symptom and result of disease that has been metastizing for over twenty years

[Yellowhammer]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

Citation needed.

[KingSweden]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

Citation needed.

[Frodo]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

Citation needed.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

Except for media outlets that conform to your worldview, yes?

[ON Progressive]

Most of the media is an enemy of the people.

Citation needed.

[Inmate Trump]

The modern day GOP is nothing more than a front for the Russian government.

Their voters are either ignorant to this fact, or just ignore it because it benefits them on election day.  There are no middle options.  Trump's GOP is a scam, it is the definition of corruption, and every single one of his voters has some mental incapacity keeping them from viewing things logically and rationally because they think they're standing on the side of morality, Christianity, and family values when in fact they stand with none of that.  You cannot support Donald Trump as the leader of the free world and say you're a champion of Christian morality.  You cannot support Trump and say you're a patriotic American.  These things are oxymorons; you cannot be one and also the other.

[Panda Express]

What percentage of Democrats advocate the idea of having open borders by simply ordering our Border Patrol to stand down?  What percentage of Democrats oppose spending more money to oppose the upgrading of detention facilities to bring pressure to "Let 'em all in!"?  (Probably 2/3 at least if you go by Atlas.)

Boy, you're about to look stupid.

66% of Clinton voters want secure borders over open borders

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Dumbassery aside, 47% of Republicans now support same-sex marriage and 64% of the country total. In 5 years, a majority of Republicans will probably support SSM. So not sure what your point is.

[Pyro]

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You could effectively manage a cornfield or two with the amount of strawmen in this post.

[Roronoa D. Law]

To be honest you can get 30% of the population to believe anything like Bigfoot, Aliens in Roswell, or Beyonce and Jay Z teamed up with Rothschild to takeover the world. They just happen to all be Republicans.