A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of the Black Lives Matter
movement, according to a new national poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College.
Story continuesHopkins, a white registered Democrat who describes herself as a centrist, said she was particularly galled by Trump’s comments at one point during protests over Floyd’s death that the Secret Service had been prepared to sic the “most vicious dogs” on protesters outside the White House gates.
The coalition of people sympathetic to the protesters’ cause, including Latino voters, exposes the limits of Trump’s tendency to exclusively speak directly to his overwhelmingly white and conservative base. As with other issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, the administration’s narrow focus has been derided by experts and voters, who say the governing strategy does not reflect the country’s broader interests, or the current political realities.
The death of Floyd was an urgent message to the nation, he said, to make changes to end the kinds of police and societal behavior that led to the incident. Though the poll overall shows former Vice President Joe Biden in a very strong position, especially on racial justice, and voters’ belief in his ability to unite a divided country, it also indicates how difficult a task that could be: More than 40% of white respondents agreed in some measure that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as other forms of discrimination, reinforcing a theme of white grievance politics that the president and his supporters have long expressed.
“The whole message has been undermined in a lot of ways,” said Berlinger, a white retired teacher. “I’m not a big fan of people who break the law to say they’re working for a cause. I don’t think that’s the correct way of doing it.” “I was not very active, and my interest would fade,” said Defever, who is white and works as a produce buyer for a food wholesaler. “I would write on the Black Lives Matter page and see truth and pain and hurt in so many people I know but would not go out and protest.”
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