[Dallas News] New Dallas Morning News poll finds gaping partisan chasm on friction between Trump’s ’law and order’ approach and demands to end police brutality and racism.
Newspaper article front-page title is Texans Deeply Divided About Response to Protests, which is more fair than the on-line version - Rubber bullets? Tear gas? In Texas, most Republicans OK putting down protests by force; most Dems don’t support the tactics. Nice job vilifying the Pubs, by comparing apples to hippos.
Texans are deeply divided about the use of force to quell mostly peaceful protests against police brutality, with a new poll exposing a chasm of mistrust between Democrats who are largely sympathetic to mostly peaceful protesters and Republicans who back President Donald Trump's "law and order" crackdown on rioters and looters.
Just 15% of Democrats support deploying the military in response to mostly peaceful protests, as Trump has repeatedly threatened to use to quell riots and looting, compared with 70% of Republicans.
Whaddaya call those arguments? Straw Men? Red herrings? Or just selective comparisons?
"Let's face it, a lot of what is being called protests is actually riots," said conservative poll respondent James, 53, an insurance broker in Paris, Texas. "The heck with rubber bullets. People are taking people out of cars and killing people or beating people up. Those people should be shot."
Deandra, 48, a tax accountant who lives in West Dallas, told pollsters she strongly opposes the use of force to disperse protesters trying to shine a light on police brutality and racial injustice.
Two different issues, presented as opposite equivalences. Who is dividing the country?
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