Quote (Jupe @ Jan 18 2022 09:00am)
are you sure? Because nearly 20% of republicans also seem open to shoving people into their homes until they get the jab :rofl: I don't think I've met a single person democrat or republican irl who has said "yeah maybe that's not a bad idea to lock them up in their homes'
response rates in the 5-10% range are low enough you're going to get spillover from people who cross parties on identification, misunderstanding questions, a few true wackos, trolling answers, etc. You're never going to get 100% of republicans to agree on any poll question, even if its making necrophilia illegal. Polls aren't reliable for finely tuned answers. What they can show is trends and relative proportions. And its extremely clear from the poll results that these authoritarian measures are extremely unpopular with republicans and fairly popular with democrats, only becoming lukewarm or slightly hostile once the measures reach the point of thor's summary executions. And lets remember that libertarians let alone civil libertarians were never a majority of the republican party to begin with, an isolated fringe until a few years ago and now still not mainstream. Republicans openly embraced authoritarianism until just a few years ago. So I don't doubt there exist a substantial amount of republicans who actually do agree with authoritarian responses to the pandemic. The trends however make it clear they are a rare bird, its the Democrats who have openly embraced authoritarianism now and are willing to take it to extreme measures that make the patriot act look like a middle school teacher selected a hall monitor during roll call.