Over 90 percent oppose making it easier for people to vote roughly 70 percent would support a hypothetical third term for Trump (which would be unconstitutional). They go further than “merely” believing the 2020 election was stolen, a nearly unanimous view among the bunch. Sign up to receive our newsletter each Friday. Vox’s German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administration’s burst of policymaking. These voters, according to Blum and Parker, are hostile to bedrock democratic principles.
Their subjects are engaged and committed Republican partisans, disproportionately likely to influence conflicts within the party like primary elections. The political scientists behind the survey, Rachel Blum and Christian Parker, identified so-called “MAGA voters” by their activity on pro-Trump Facebook pages. This chart shows results from a two-part survey, conducted in late 2020 and early 2021, of hardcore Trump supporters. Today’s Republicans really hate Democrats - and democracy 1) Trump’s supporters have embraced anti-democratic ideas And the prospects for rescuing the Republican Party, at least in the short term, look grim indeed. The story they tell is sobering: At every level, from the elite down to rank-and-file voters, the party is permeated with anti-democratic political attitudes and agendas. But in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and Trump’s acquittal in the Senate on the charge of inciting it, they seem more a plain description of where we’re at as a country.īut how deep does the GOP’s problem with democracy run, really? How did things get so bad? And is it likely to get worse?īelow are 13 charts that illustrate the depth of the problem and how we got here. It is a radical, obstructionist faction that has become hostile to the most basic democratic norm: that the other side should get to wield power when it wins elections.Ī few years ago, these statements may have sounded like partisan Democratic hyperbole. The Republican Party is the biggest threat to American democracy today.
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