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Political Polarization and Its Effects on Democratic Institutional Trust

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In the United States, trust in the Supreme Court has become starkly partisan: a 2023 Gallup poll found a 49-point gap between Democrats and Republicans in confidence in the Court, compared to a negligible gap in the 1980s.

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In a 2023 poll, only 16% of Americans said they trust the federal government to do what is right most of the time, down from over 70% in 1964. Why has so much trust evaporated?