Over the course of the past five years, the labels I use when I create graphics based on polling have grown increasingly dark. From poll questions about perceptions of foreign interference in elections, to impeachment, to death tolls from novel viruses to, now, sentiment about the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by a mob supporting President Trump. Let’s all hope that this is the low point.
Most Americans appear to think that it is or, at least, that it may be. But while most Americans also think that the actions of the mob were unacceptable, a large portion of the country at least empathizes with what occurred or, in some cases, actually approves. CONTINUED
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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