What’s Driving the Right-Wing Protesters Fighting the Quarantine?

In an era when hardly anything feels nonpartisan, the coronavirus was starting to look like a consensus issue. …

But this week, a rash of well-organized protests against state restrictions broke out — a jolting reminder that not everyone is on board with the new, government-mandated limits on public assembly and economic activity. …

With fast-developing stories like this one, survey data always lags behind the present moment. But polling shows that these right-wing activists probably speak for only a small minority of Americans — or even of all Republicans. CONT.

Giovanni Russonello, New York Times

Recent polls: Coronavirus pandemic

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