{"id":23832,"date":"2021-01-07T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23832"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:09:49","slug":"7-of-americans-are-the-hard-core-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23832","title":{"rendered":"7% of Americans are the hard core problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2021\/01\/06\/US-capitol-trump-poll\">reports<\/a>: &#8220;One in five voters &#8211; including 45% of Republicans &#8211; approve of the storming of the Capitol building.&#8221; This is important and bad news. I do not want to minimize it, but I would put it in context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Views of Storming the Capitol\u00a0\" aria-label=\"chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-OnSCF\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/OnSCF\/1\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"744\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var e in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+e)||document.querySelector(\"iframe[src*='\"+e+\"']\");t&&(t.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][e]+\"px\")}}))}();\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bit under half of Republicans support the riot in DC. Republicans represent about 29% of registered voters. Registered voters represent about two-thirds of adults. Adults represent about three-quarters of Americans. By the time you isolate Republican registered voters who support the riot, it&#8217;s down to about 6.6% of the population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be sure, some of the people in the other pie slices are also part of the problem. For instance, within the &#8220;other&#8221; slice are 2% of the registered Democrats and 21% of the registered Independents who support the riot. (A total of 10.1% of all Americans support the storming.) Most of that slice consists of people who don&#8217;t have an opinion, which is a problem in itself. And among the under-18s and the non-registered people, some probably hold views aligned with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, it is worth putting the hard-core problem in some degree of perspective. My guess is that the images from yesterday will basically become the capsule summary of the Trump years, except for a smallish and dwindling proportion of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Survey data from YouGov. Registration percentages from Pew, 2018. Age distribution from Census, 2010.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouGov reports: &#8220;One in five voters &#8211; including 45% of Republicans &#8211; approve of the storming of the Capitol building.&#8221; This is important and bad news. I do not want to minimize it, but I would put it in context. A bit under half of Republicans support the riot in DC. Republicans represent about 29% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23838,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23832\/revisions\/23838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}