Republican voters got more socially liberal under Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : But it is notable that even now, after a two-year retrenchment, Republican support for same-sex marriage is higher than in any year before 2017.
49% : In Gallup's annual polls, Republican support for same-sex marriage didn't reach 40 percent until 2016, but by 2020 it had gotten to 49 percent.
49% : In June, the Democracy Fund published a report on "how attitudes about race and immigration are settling and shifting after Trump," drawing on surveys conducted regularly since 2016.
41% : Around the same time, a Pew poll showed a large minority of Republicans (40 percent) endorsing Black Lives Matter.Views on the George Floyd movement later became more polarized along partisan lines.
29% : Indeed, al-Gharbi argued during the 2020 election that when voters associated Trump with that sort of rhetoric and behavior, it made him less rather than more popular, including among white Republicans.
26% : But when they looked at those "racial resentment" questions (while avoiding that dubious term), they found Democrats getting a smidge more conservative since Trump left office -- and Republicans getting a smidge more liberal.
21% : And while the so-called Great Awokening has cooled somewhat since Joe Biden succeeded Trump as president, Republicans may have quietly continued to trend leftward on racial issues.
5% : According to Wood's own data, al-Gharbi noted, whites who backed Trump over Hillary Clinton were "less racist than those who voted for [Mitt] Romney.

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