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By The Numbers: Is it OK to use violence to “save the country?”

Here are some very rough numbers that might help create context for discussion.

The U.S. population is about 331 million, of which roughly 252 million are of voting age.

Of the voting age population, about 63 million self identify as Republicans (Gallup, Dec. 2021)

Some 24% of them say they are OK with violence as a way to “save the country.”  That’s about 15 million, a huge number to be sure.  But there are are over 230 million who are not OK with that.  

How to interpret it is unclear, but it does raise dozens of questions worthy of discussion.  Don’t get hung up on the math.  The numbers are roughly right and exactly wrong.  They merely point to more important things.

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