Media got GOP reaction to January 6 wrong

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On February 21st, The New York Times wrote an article entitled Why Thousands of Republicans Are Leaving the Party. In April, USNews wrote Republicans Flee the GOP After Capitol Riots. Other similar articles include Thousands of Republicans Leave the Party, Registration Data Shows and Registered Republicans Ditch Party After Capitol Riot.

Was any of that actually true? Of course not. The media ran with incomplete and out-of-context data to push a narrative without even stopping to investigate what the real cause was. As Couvillon’s thread shows, the exodus from the Democrat Party has actually been larger than the GOP in regards to registrations. Why have the numbers changed to the extent they have? Because voter rolls are purged after elections.

In short, regardless of one’s opinion on the severity of January 6th, it is clearly not a priority in the minds of almost all Americans. The only people still obsessing over it are partisans seeking to use it as a wedge issue. It has not changed the landscape of the political parties the way the media wanted it to, and all those articles I linked to were obvious wishful thinking. That’s not how news outlets are supposed to operate.
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Liberals in the media and in Congress overstated the events of January 6 at the Capitol building and then overstated what they believed would be the reaction to it.  I would add that they also were wrong about support for President Trump but that has been a consistent problem for them since 2016 and in the 2020 election and after the events at the Capitol.  The more we learn about the events of January 6 it also looks like the FBI grossly overreacted to it also.

In fact, I think there has continued to be a bigger negative reaction to the Democrat Defund the Police policies which have had a much more devastating impact on the cities and particularly among the minority communities.