Posted by Jay Livingston
Gallup could use a headline editor. Today (here), they went with this:
Tribalism Drives Republicans’ Trust in Politicians.
Gallup provides this graph:
(Click to enlarge.)
When Obama took office in 2009, Republican trust or confidence in elected officials fell by thirty points. Throughout the Obama years, Republicans remained 20-30 points less trustful of politicians than in the Bush era. In 2016, when it looked likely that Hillary Clinton would be the next president, that trust fell to its lowest point in the century; only 33% of Republicans had “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in politicians. Since Trump took office, Republican trust has regained 20 points.
Democrats’ confidence in politicians shows nothing like this partisan volatility.
So here’s yet another accurate alternative headline
Republicans Don’t Trust Anybody But Republicans
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