They are adamant about this feeling
University of Chicago research finds that it’s worse than we thought.
The researchers assessed how consistently respondents answered certain questions that were written differently but belonged to the same category. What they found was a high degree of stability among answers related to insurrectionist sentiments — equating to well over 10 million people.
“That’s a very worrisome finding,” [Robert] Pape said. “This is not just people randomly ticking boxes, but they’re consistently ticking similar boxes, meaning they are adamant about this feeling.”
Much like the Taliban.
Rather than a dying movement, the team found the insurrectionist sentiments were larger and more dangerous than they believed the movement was in March.
“We would have thought that since June is months after March — which is six months after the insurrection in January — that things would have gone the other way,” Pape said. “Keep in mind: Trump has been de-platformed. There have been over 550 arrests to punish and process, through the criminal justice system, people who participated in the January 6 insurrection.
“There were reasons to think that things were cooling off and dying down or might have been cooling off and dying down. That’s not what we see. We see the opposite.”
Also like the Taliban. Not fading away but growing.
Well, it took almost 20 full years until the Taliban regained power. I hope it will be at least that long until the Trumpists regain power.
It won’t be the Trumpists. It will be someone slick and smart and organized who can nonetheless cater to Trumpist rage. I am sure the Koch Brother and his ilk are grooming someone as we speak. Probably a minister, I would guess.
Trump was a practice run that went off the rails (or wasn’t on the rails to start with). They’ve likely learned some lessons on what not to do. If they pick someone who isn’t a complete fucking moron, and an ignorant boor, we’re totally screwed.