BREAKING: 54% say Pres. Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump will leave office with a 38% job approval rating in new @ABC News/WaPo poll; 60% of the public disapproves, matching his peak disapproval in August 2018. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
JUST IN: 89% of Americans oppose the actions of those who stormed the Capitol, including 80% who are strongly opposed. Among Trump supporters, 76% are opposed, including 60% strongly opposed. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
BREAKING: Pres. Trump’s career average approval rating is the lowest for any president in modern polling dating back to 1939. He is the first president in that time never to achieve majority approval at any point. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
JUST IN: 56% in new @ABC News/WaPo poll favor removing Pres. Trump from office and barring him from holding elected office again—exceeding the 47% who supported his removal in his first impeachment last year. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
NEW: 62% of Americans say they see no evidence of Pres. Trump’s election claims, and 63% express confidence in the electoral system overall. The numbers are much lower among Republicans. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
NEW: 51% say the events of the past week in Washington, D.C., left them less confident in the stability of democracy in the U.S., according to new @ABC News/WaPo poll. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
New @ABC News/WaPo poll finds nearly 7 in 10 think Republicans should lead the party in a different direction. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
MORE: 6 in 10 Republicans believe the party should follow Pres. Trump’s leadership—lower than the 83% who thought so in 2018, but underscoring the schism within the party. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
NEW: 52% of Americans in new @ABC News/WaPo poll say Republican leaders who supported Pres. Trump’s effort to overturn the election “went too far”—a position held by just 16% of Republicans. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0

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This is partly what makes it impossible to have a constructive conversation nowadays. The stubborn refusal to accept that opposition to Trumpism and GOP nationalism is about more than simply holding different beliefs about things in and of itself. 👇


It's fine for people to hold different beliefs. But that doesn't mean all beliefs deserve equal treatment or tolerance and it doesn't mean intolerance of some beliefs makes a person intolerant of every belief which they don't share.

So if I said I don't think Trumpism deserves to be tolerated because it's just a fresh 21st century coat of cheap paint on a failed, dangerous 20th century ideology (fascism) that doesn't mean I'm intolerant of all beliefs with which I disagree. You'd think this would be obvious.

Another important facet. People who support fascist movements tend to give what they think are valid reasons for supporting them. That doesn't mean anyone is obliged to tolerate fascism or accept their proffered excuse.


Say you joined a neighborhood group that sets up community gardens and does roadside beautification projects. All good, right? Say one day you're having a meeting and you notice the President and exec board of this group are saying some bizarre things about certain neighbors.

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