How messed up are Trump Supporters?

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More generally, a YouGov poll carried out for The Economist in mid-2017 revealed a striking level of intolerance toward the media, especially among Republicans. When asked whether or not they favored permitting the courts to shut down media outlets for presenting information that is “biased or inaccurate,” 45 percent of Republicans who were polled said they favored it, whereas only 20 percent were opposed. More than 50 percent of Republicans supported the idea of imposing fines for biased or inaccurate reporting. In other words, a majority of Republican voters said they support the kind of media repression seen in recent years in Ecuador, Turkey, and Venezuela.

~ How Democracies Die. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.

In the second video, Loesch issues a not-so-subtle warning of violence against the New York Times:

"We’ve had it with your pretentious…assertion that you are in any way truth- or fact-based journalism. Consider this the shot across your proverbial bow….In short, we’re coming for you."

The NRA is not a small, fringe organization. It claims five million members and is closely tied to the Republican Party—Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are lifetime members.
Yet it now uses words that in the past we would have regarded as dangerously politically deviant.

~ How Democracies Die. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.