Posted: 10 January 2025 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | 7
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"Not that many Americans care about such things."
I think its more accurate that many Americans are ill informed and naive about these things. Network news viewership continues to plummet and trust in the media is at an all time low.
A 2023 Hoover Institution survey found that 79% of Americans believe "No one is above the law" but only 28% follow politics and public affairs very closely, and only 21% said they considered themselves to be very well informed.
Survey here: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/Hoo verYouGov%20Survey%20Topline%20Results_0.pdf
The impact? Trump was impeached but not removed from office or barred from running again, so many people think the entire impeachment issue was "just politics" or that he must not have done anything bad enough to warrant being removed.
Likewise, many people don't take the criminal cases seriously because there is mixed reporting, and at the end of the day no consequences.
But I don't completely disagree with you. In general, I think people have become more distrusting of the government, and more apt to believe it is corrupt. In that respect, even if they see the problems with Trump, they feel he is no different from other political leaders. So Trump benefits from cynicism about the government.
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