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George W. Bush has turned his unpopularity upside down.
Six in 10 Americans, 61%, say they now have a favorable view of the 43rd President of the United States in the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, nearly double the 33% who gave him a favorable mark when he left the White House in January 2009.
Can we attribute it to "people forget?" I don't know what else to make of it. He presided over two epic failures. The Iraq War and the Great Recession. As was the case with Reagan there has been no coordinated attempt to revise history. Making his rise in popularity somewhat inexplicable.
But there has been a monumental effort to revise history that explains this.
Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
Republicans are showing increased loyalty to the former president as he campaigns for reelection and fights criminal charges over his attempt to stay in power after losing in 2020. They are now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were “mostly violent,” less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack, and are slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate than they were in a December 2021 Post-UMD survey.
In follow-up interviews, some said their views have changed because they now believe the riot was instigated by law enforcement to suppress political dissent — a baseless conspiracy theory that has been promoted heavily in right-wing media and by Trump in his speeches and in his legal fight against the four-count federal indictment he faces in D.C.
I'm not sure there is a better or more frightening example of Repub's susceptibility to propaganda than what these polls show. The longer they are exposed to Faux-like disinformation the more they believe in a distorted view of reality. One that is beyond the reach of facts or reason. More than anything this is why I am not optimistic about the country's future. A participatory democracy, reliant on an informed electorate, can not survive in the post-factual environment created by RWM.
George W. Bush has turned his unpopularity upside down.
Six in 10 Americans, 61%, say they now have a favorable view of the 43rd President of the United States in the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, nearly double the 33% who gave him a favorable mark when he left the White House in January 2009.
Can we attribute it to "people forget?" I don't know what else to make of it. He presided over two epic failures. The Iraq War and the Great Recession. As was the case with Reagan there has been no coordinated attempt to revise history. Making his rise in popularity somewhat inexplicable.
But there has been a monumental effort to revise history that explains this.
Republican loyalty to Trump, rioters climbs in 3 years after Jan. 6 attack
Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
Republicans are showing increased loyalty to the former president as he campaigns for reelection and fights criminal charges over his attempt to stay in power after losing in 2020. They are now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were “mostly violent,” less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack, and are slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate than they were in a December 2021 Post-UMD survey.
In follow-up interviews, some said their views have changed because they now believe the riot was instigated by law enforcement to suppress political dissent — a baseless conspiracy theory that has been promoted heavily in right-wing media and by Trump in his speeches and in his legal fight against the four-count federal indictment he faces in D.C.
I'm not sure there is a better or more frightening example of Repub's susceptibility to propaganda than what these polls show. The longer they are exposed to Faux-like disinformation the more they believe in a distorted view of reality. One that is beyond the reach of facts or reason. More than anything this is why I am not optimistic about the country's future. A participatory democracy, reliant on an informed electorate, can not survive in the post-factual environment created by RWM.
