2014 was a year when Americans’ institutional trust bottomed out—something that would come into play in 2016.
,” Trump told the cheering crowd at the Republican National Convention. The “it” he was referring to was “the system.” It was a concrete offer to plug a gaping hole, though the plan of how to go about it was vague.was most apparent in numbers tracking trust in the government. Confidence in the presidency fell more than 20 points between 2009 and 2014.
and trust in the police was at 53 percent, down 4 points from the previous year. It would slide further in 2015. Police shootings of black Americans no doubt profoundly influenced Americans’ views on race relations,sporadically by Gallup since 2001. In 2013, 70 percent of Americans overall thought that race relations were very good or somewhat good, but by the next time Gallup asked the question, in 2015, only 47 percent thought so. That Black Lives Matter sparked consistent protests about the treatment of black Americans over these years can be no coincidence.
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