“The United States has been around for nearly two and a half centuries, and while we lack opinion polls from earlier eras, we do have some sense of what Americans thought of their government in the more distant past. That longer record suggests that while the federal government enjoyed high levels of trust from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this was an aberration, not the norm.”
“Distrust of centralized authority has deep roots in the US. After all, the American Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolt against government. As a consequence, when the revolutionaries began to build a new political order, they constructed governments that reflected this deep-seated suspicion.”
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