This focus group is a monument to the lack of left media infrastructure. There was an attempted insurrection, inspired & coordinated by one party's leaders, a *no one's in the public's face telling them about it*. They're left to piece it together on their own.
https://twitter.com/Alex_Roarty/status/1480938114528993283
Ordinary people do not have some inherent sense of how significant events are. We act based on social cues. If Jan. 6 were a big deal, they'd be hearing about it constantly. People would up in arms. Instead, a quiet, bureaucratic investigation & a one-year-anniversary speech.
Now, libs taking over schools & indoctrinating kids with CRT -- *that* seems to be a real thing. It's on TV constantly, parents are being interviewed about it, Dems are responding defensively to it, states are passing all these emergency laws. Social cues indicate: this matters.
This is the ultimate achievement of RW media -- not to have good arguments or persuade, but simply to flood the zone, to send "social proof" that the things it cares about matter. It's not the quality, it's the quantity, & the left simply cannot match it on quantity.
As so you get what you see so clearly in this focus group. When prompted to pause & think about it, people agree, "yeah, Jan. 6 seems really bad." They are primed & ready to accept the obvious fact that coups=bad. But in their daily lives, they just *haven't been prompted*.
On this subject, you really really should read this piece by @RonFilipkowski, who seems to be one of the precious few people who understands the basic dynamic: thebulwark.com/how-democrats-…
Especially this. It wouldn't take all that much to vastly, vastly improve Dem media operations. The right's billionaires have been setting this up for decades. Where the fck are the left's billionaires? 
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