One in three Americans say violence against government justified – poll – By Martin Pengelly (The Guardian) / January 2, 2022
Washington Post releases survey showing ‘considerably higher’ number saying it is sometimes right to take up arms
One in three Americans believe violence against the government is sometimes justified, according to a new Washington Post poll.
The survey, with the University of Maryland, was released on New Year’s Day – five days short of a year since rioters attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald Trump’s election defeat by Joe Biden.
According to the authors of The Steal, a new book on Republican attempts to fulfill Trump’s aim through legal action in key states, the rioters of 6 January 2021 “had no more chance of overthrowing the US government than hippies in 1967 had trying to levitate the Pentagon”.
But it was still by far the most serious attack on the seat of federal government since the British burned Washington in 1814 and the Post poll comes amid a sea of warnings of growing domestic strife, even of a second civil war.
