… Extremism trackers say the past two years of fighting pandemic restrictions have given far-right groups a new generation of recruits and a blueprint for taking the lead in conservative organizing. The midterm season, they warn, brings a heightened risk of political violence, as armed groups build on those gains […] Read more »
Will the war in Ukraine change America’s political landscape?
The war in Ukraine has unsettled American politics. The degree to which it is changing American politics is the more consequential question for President Biden and the Democrats. Russia’s brutal and unprovoked aggression against its sovereign neighbor has refocused the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a figure of […] Read more »
Why Republicans are excited about a culture war they know they’re losing
… For some time, PRRI has asking Americans about same-sex marriage, laws protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination, and allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ people because of their religious beliefs. The top-line results could hardly be clearer: In the latest data, 68 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, 79 […] Read more »
Unpacking Biden’s Vulnerabilities
President Biden and the Democrats have paid a terrible toll in public opinion over the last 13 months. And his political ledger still drips with red ink, despite the misplaced optimism coming from some Democrats. True, coming on the heels of his mostly well-reviewed State of the Union, Biden’s numbers […] Read more »
Biden’s Uncertainty Principle
The “return to normalcy” in American life is starting to look something like the horizon: It recedes whenever you approach it. For President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats anxious about the November midterm elections, nothing could be more ominous. Last summer’s Delta wave dashed hopes that the deployment of COVID […] Read more »
United and Still Polarized
… Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth Poll, wrote this week that when they asked respondents to use a word to describe the state of the country, the most common response was “divided.” And, while “fewer Americans feel we are becoming more divided than we have been over the […] Read more »