Inhabiting Different Worlds: How Partisan Attitudes Shape Americans’ Evaluation of the Black Lives Matter Protests and the January 6th Insurrection

Rongbo Jin, Spencer Lindsay, School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona

Political Research Quarterly

Published online on July 10, 2026

Abstract

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How does partisanship shape the ways Americans interpret major political events? We examine public evaluations of the Black Lives Matter protests and the January 6th insurrection using an original nationally representativeYouGovsurvey alongside cross-...