Stiffening Republican spines

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Beleaguered by popular culture, marginalized in public schools, watching the corporations whose taxes they cut boycotting their states over conservative voting or abortion laws, and now facing a web of mandates restricting their personal behavior in ways that were unthinkable prior to the start of COVID, more and more, these voters are looking to their elected officials to defend their interests as well as their ideology.
41% : When one red state passes a law restricting abortion, another follows.
17% : There is a new attitude prevalent among Republicans who are ascendant following President Joe Biden's troubled first year in office: unafraid of the media, solicitous of the base, assertive about conservative priorities, and combative with the Left, whether in the form of the "Squad" or woke capitalism.

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