What’s driving the shutdown protests? It’s not economic pain.

For weeks, President Trump has insisted that the economy must reopen, hailing the states choosing to relax coronavirus restrictions “safely and quickly” and arguing that the United States is defeating the pandemic. Around the country, protesters are showing up — sometimes armed — at state capitols or around local businesses to oppose state and local shutdown and social distancing orders. …

But are those who are suffering financially opposed to the restrictions? Not according to new data from a Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape survey. CONT.

Robert Griffin & Mayesha Quasem, Monkey Cage

Recent polls: Coronavirus pandemic


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