“No-Confidence Vote” on U.S. Institutions—Especially the Presidency and TV News

In a de facto no-confidence vote, American confidence in U.S. institutions has cratered, according to a new Gallup poll. Jefferey M. Jones wrote, “Americans are less confident in major U.S. institutions than they were a year ago, with significant declines for 11 of the 16 institutions tested and no improvements for any.”

The Supreme Court and presidency took the biggest hits. The Court declined “11 percentage points,” and confidence in the presidency is down 15 points, “matching the 15-point drop in President Joe Biden’s job approval rating since the last confidence survey in June 2021.”

The new poll marks the lowest confidence ratings for the three branches of government: the Court- 25%, the presidency- 23%, and the Congress a sickly 7%. Gallup also ranked five other institutions at their lowest reported confidence levels. “[C]hurch or organized religion (31%), newspapers (16%), the criminal justice system (14%), big business (14%)….” And the cops came in at 45%, which is solid after the vicious leftist war waging against them.

Unsurprisingly, TV media, as reported by Axios, also scored embarrassingly low confidence numbers. Axios’ Sara Fischer wrote, “Television news is today considered the second-least trusted institution in the country, following Congress, according to…” Gallup.

Fischer says the plunge in news media trust lies with Republicans, which is no surprise since the media acts as an arm of the Democrat Party. News that hurts Republicans is blown up or made up and reported on non-stop. News that hurts Democrats is euthanized.

Axios reported, “Just 5% of Republicans said they had ‘a great deal or quite a lot of confidence’ in newspapers, compared to 35% of Democrats. Only 8% of Republicans said they had ‘a great deal or quite a lot of confidence’ in TV news, compared to 20% of Democrats. Independents’ views are generally closer to Republicans’,” which is a validation of the leftist bias.

Democrat leaders are smart enough to see the media disparities, which favor the Left and target the Right. And you’d think it would embarrass them, causing such a decline in confidence in American institutions. But, Democrats benefit from it politically. They’re selfish.

Hugh Hewitt tweeted the way to move forward. “I believe this. The first question is: Why? Second: How to repair?”

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