The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans:

51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election

56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection

66% say he has acted responsibly

Behold the GOP's authoritarian core: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/new-poll-trump-gop-approval-authoritarian/

Just look at these poll findings among Republicans. It's very hard to be optimistic about what this portends:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/new-poll-trump-gop-approval-authoritarian/

Our poll also complicates a comforting narrative: That the turn away from democracy is driven by economic dispossession.

Around 1/4 of people with college degrees and +$100K household incomes largely support these attacks on democracy:

(h/t @AdamSerwer)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/new-poll-trump-gop-approval-authoritarian/

Between @DanCrenshawTX's authoritarian cosplay video and @HawleyMO's salute to rioters, watching Republicans navigate their party's authoritarian currents is pretty terrible.

The new post-liberal radicalism makes it worse.

(h/t @DamonLinker & @LKField)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/new-poll-trump-gop-approval-authoritarian/