Sounds like confirmation bias tbh. I’m not going to read an Applebaum piece from the Atlantic. Although republicans lie on purpose in polls often, they are empirical data — opinion pieces are manufactured consent. From Applebaum.

See that’s the difference between growing up in Frederick and growing up in the beltway. I hear conversations from the source. I know the analyst to invented rushergate. The same person who briefed me on russiagate wanted to dismantle science from within the CIA. I know the NRA lobbyist who colluded with a Russian spy and squeezed the N word out of Thiccary and told me to listen to it. I know multiple presidential candidates’ kids from school. I know the bailout people from the SAT.

The partisans are on both sides. I say that not as a conspiracy theory from a rando on the internet, but as somebody with deep knowledge into the issue. But you don’t need me to say it — listen to the office of the Director of National Intelligence. They said, repeatedly, that the mission of the foreign campaign was to sow racial discord — not a one way street to elect Donald trump. What that means is, logically, is that they have assets on both sides. Not one. Just because you don’t see it personally doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is psychological warfare. I don’t just watch CNN for a confirmation bias — I also watch Fox and Newsmax, Ben Shapiro and the daily show, Bill Maher and random youtubers. Disinformation is sprinkled everywhere, not collected only on Fox. To say otherwise is disinformation.

If you actually measured with a bar graph how many terrorists were involved on January 6 and compared it to the terrorists involved in the BLM protests last summer, it would not even compare. I’m not talking about the old rednecks who waited outside because they were too fat to walk up the stairs. Their actions are treasonous and disgraceful acts of terrorism fueled by disinformation — don’t get me wrong — but that doesn’t logically necessarily mean BLM isn’t also doing the same thing. They are, just with a different style, and apparently, vastly different numbers.

But covid is impacting them the worst so it kind of solves itself.