The Right Has Its Own American Crisis
Trump-friendly voters are expressing concern about a crisis that simply doesn’t exist.
You can’t always take what you read in opinion polls at face value. If, for example, a given portion of the population feels that the country is on the “wrong track,” some of them might think that what is direly needed is more sweeping progressive reform, while others may think things have already swung much too far left.
That caution is important when looking at polls about the state of American democracy as the nation marks the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. An , for example, found that nearly two-thirds of Americans—64 percent—agree that American democracy
