Harry Enten: “Republicans have believed unbelievable things about the election and its aftermath for more than half a year now… The majority who have false thoughts about January 6 is similar to the percentage of Republicans who believe, falsely, that President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately earn enough votes to beat Trump in the election.”
“These statistics being so similar makes a lot of sense. When you believe something ridiculous, it’s not the toughest jump to believe something else ridiculous on the same topic.”
“Moreover, if you are wrongly of the belief that the election was somehow stolen, you might too be OK with a riot to protest those results.”
“We shouldn’t lose sight of how crazily high these stats are. They’re not normal, even in our deeply partisan age.”
