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Recent surveys reveal some views of people identifying as Republican which are rather troubling.
I'm not sure what all that means in the context of 350 million people; most of which appear to reject these disturbing views. But, that so many people in the one particular political Party currently in power cling to them cannot bode well for the Nation moving forward.
43 percent of self-identified Republicans said they believed “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior.”
When asked if President Trump should shut down The Post, CNN and the New York Times, 23 percent of Republicans said yes.
In a Yahoo Finance-SurveyMonkey poll conducted from July 25 to 27, 11 percent of the Republicans surveyed said it would be “appropriate” for Russia to interfere in the midterm elections if it helped their party keep control of Congress, and 29 percent said it would not be “a big deal.” ...40 percent of Republicans would be okay with Russian interference in a U.S. election if it helped their side speaks to a lack of allegiance to our democratic institutions.
Nearly a quarter of Republicans (22 percent) believe Trump tells the truth only “some of the time or less,” but more than half of that group still approves of the job he’s doing as president... They seem to believe that Trump can do no wrong, even though they know he’s likely lying to them.
...most Americans (59 percent) accepted the intelligence community’s findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Trump, only 32 percent of Republicans agreed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...c897f17e185_story.html?utm_term=.4c5906cd825b
I'm not sure what all that means in the context of 350 million people; most of which appear to reject these disturbing views. But, that so many people in the one particular political Party currently in power cling to them cannot bode well for the Nation moving forward.