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   From: cap@philhendrie.con   
      
   "How the Storming of the Capitol Became a ‘Normal Tourist Visit’"   
      
   By Thomas B. Edsall   
      
   It is no wonder that Republican leaders in the House do not want to convene a   
   truth and reconciliation commission to scrutinize the Jan. 6 attack on the   
   Capitol. The more attention drawn to the events of that day, the more their   
   party has to lose.   
      
   Immediately after the riot, support for President Donald Trump fell sharply   
   among Republicans, according to surveys conducted by Kevin Arceneaux of   
   Sciences   
   Po Paris and Rory Truex of Princeton.   
      
   The drop signaled that Republicans would have to pay a price for the   
   Trump-inspired insurrection, the violent spirit of which was captured vividly   
   by   
   Peter Baker and Sabrina Tavernise of The Times:   
      
       The pure savagery of the mob that rampaged through the Capitol that day was   
       breathtaking, as cataloged by the injuries inflicted on those who tried to   
       guard the nation’s elected lawmakers. One police officer lost an eye,   
   another   
       the tip of his finger. Still another was shocked so many times with a Taser   
       gun that he had a heart attack. They suffered cracked ribs, two smashed   
       spinal disks and multiple concussions. At least 81 members of the Capitol   
       force and 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department were injured.   
      
   Republican revulsion toward the riot was, however, short-lived.   
      
   Arceneaux and Truex, in their paper “Donald Trump and the Lie,” point out   
   that   
   Republican voter identification with Trump had “rebounded to pre-election   
   levels” by Jan. 13. The authors measured identification with Trump by   
   responses   
   to two questions: “When people criticize Donald Trump, it feels like a   
   personal   
   insult,” and “When people praise Donald Trump, it makes me feel good.”   
      
   The same pattern emerged in the Republican Party’s favorability ratings,   
   which   
   dropped by 13 points between the beginning and the end of January, but gained   
   11   
   points back by April, according to NBC/Wall Street Journal surveys.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/opinion/jan-6-capitol-attack.   
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