The following article by John Halpin, Navin Nayak, Ruy Teixeira, Geoff Garin and Guy Molyneux was posted on the Center for American Progress website May 24, 2018:
A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Public Opinion on the Federal Government Under the Trump Administration
Overview
A major new study of voter attitudes finds deep partisan divides on trust in government under President Trump and serious concerns about a range of the president’s and his team’s actions and decisions.
Introduction and summary
The election and presidency of Donald Trump has upended American politics in numerous ways. For his most ardent supporters, President Trump’s efforts to change things in Washington; to deliver nationalist economic policies on trade, jobs, and immigration; and to advance culturally conservative rhetoric and racial appeals are worth the break with past presidential behavior and national unity. For his detractors, the actions of Trump and his administration represent a serious abrogation of presidential norms and mark a dangerous shift away from pluralist democracy and toward more authoritarian nationalism. Many other voters with less intense feelings about Trump are just trying to put the whole spectacle out of their minds and to find some semblance of normalcy in a politically fractured environment. Continue reading “Trust in Government in the Trump Era”