{"id":6879,"date":"2021-12-23T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:30:20","slug":"why-republican-support-for-peaceful-racial-justice-protests-was-short-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6879","title":{"rendered":"Why Republican Support For Peaceful Racial Justice Protests Was Short-Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A poll conducted at the height of the protests last summer<\/a> found that Republicans were 44 points more likely than Democrats (67 to 23 percent, respectively) to say that the protests were primarily motivated by long-standing biases against the police, whereas 66 percent of Democrats versus 22 percent of Republicans said the protests were motivated by a genuine desire to hold police accountable. The same poll found an even greater partisan divide in views about racial biases in the criminal justice system, with 90 percent of people who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 saying the criminal justice system treats white people better than Black people, compared to just 25 percent of Trump\u2019s 2016 voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When such a sizable majority of the party rejects evidence that racial biases exist<\/a> in the first place, it was always going to be tough to sustain Republicans\u2019 support of peaceful racial justice protests. Protests of pervasive anti-Black biases in the criminal justice system<\/a> simply don\u2019t fit in a party that views racial discrimination<\/a> against white people as a bigger problem than the unfair treatment of racial and ethnic minorities<\/a> in American society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“the 29-percentage-point drop in Trump voters\u2019 net approval of the peaceful protests from June 2020 to November 2021 was accompanied by an identical increase in the share of Trump voters who strongly disapproved. In four YouGov\/Economist polls conducted last month, an average of 49 percent of Trump voters strongly disapproved of nonviolent protests in response to the deaths of Black Americans \u2014 a 29-point increase from the average of a similarly worded question that appeared in two<\/a> June 2020<\/a> YouGov\/Economist polls.1<\/sup><\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Republican Support For Peaceful Racial Justice Protests Was Short-Lived<\/a><\/blockquote>