Posted on 08/07/2019 5:25:58 PM PDT by onyx
The number of U.S. voters who see white nationalism as a threat is greater today than five months ago, according to a new poll.
Forty-seven percent of voters said they perceive white nationalism as a threat, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday and taken in the days after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, last weekend. It’s a 10-point increase from March, when 37 percent of voters said white nationalism was a threat in poll that followed the New Zealand mosque shootings.
The gunman in the New Zealand attack, which killed 51 people, allegedly wrote a manifesto filled with anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and white supremacist language. The accused gunman in the killing of 22 people in El Paso Saturday is also the reported author of a manifesto that spoke of a Hispanic "invasion."
Voters now view white nationalism as a threat on statistically similar levels as Islamic extremism, at 49 percent, based on the poll.
The uptick in viewing white nationalism as a threat was larger among Democrats and independents than it was amongst Republicans. The poll found an 11-point increase among Democrats, from 58 percent to 69 percent, and a 12-point jump among independents, from 33 percent to 45 percent.
The perceived white nationalist threat among Republicans increased from 17 percent to 22 percent.
One-third of voters said they blame Trump “a lot” for mass shootings, which is an 11-point increase from a poll last year. The majority of Democrats, 59 percent, blame Trump, and just four percent of Republicans blame Trump “a lot” for mass shootings, according to the poll.
The results follow two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that killed a combined total of more than 30 people.
It has reignited Democrats call for gun control laws, as well as invigorated Democrats in calling out Trump’s divisive rhetoric.
Trump defended his rhetoric against accusations that it's to blame for the attacks. He told reporters Monday his rhetoric “brings people together.”
The poll surveyed 1,960 registered voters between August 5 and 7. There is a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
Probably because they've never seen or met one.
A whole bunch of folks have just heard of it because a weaponized propagandized media just made it up.
Yep, must be a problem. S/
The big lie repeated often enough......
Was it Hitler’s propagandist, Josef Goebbels, who said, “Tell a lie long enough and loud enough and sooner or later people will believe it.”?
I’m white. I love this country. If this makes me a White Nationalist, then I’ll wear the Whiskey November proudly.
The Democratic Media Complex Propaganda Machine is working its’ magic.
The MSM has done their job well.
They’ve changed the words from white supremacism to white nationalism quite quick. One is evil and the other just a basic caring for the country. They are very good at twisting the wording into meaning the opposite of what is meant.
This is a poll to shape opinion, not measure it.
Leftist hoax.
Morning Consult and Politico it was an online poll of 1960 registered voters.
Here are the results:
https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/190816_crosstabs_POLITICO_RVs_v2_JB.pdf
If you are white and pro-America, you are a white nationalist.
The only way not to be one is to hate America.
Double tap. Always.
It’s another hoax. Like the Russia hoax.
Gaslighting works every time
These same people....probably couldn’t name the year the Revolution started, who the first President was and what the first ten amendments are called.
Yeah, I reject this sneaky new word “white nationalist”.
“White supremacism”, OTOH, is a perfectly good word but of course it’s of little use to them since 99.9% of conservatives oppose the notion.
This is BS. The greatest threat to this nation is multiculturalism and diversity.
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