By Col. Bill Connor ——Bio and Archives--February 25, 2024

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The 2023 Gallup Poll of trust in American institutions has been generally ignored by mainstream media, yet its findings are the most important story of the time. In illuminating the historically low trust in American institutions, Gallup showed the enormity of the trend over the past few decades.

The key takeaway is that American trust in critical national institutions is only about half of what it was around four decades ago, and falling fast. From the report entitled Historically Low Faith in US Institutions Continues: “The historically depressed nature of today’s ratings is evident….. That average fell to a new low of 26% this hear….. it is 10 points lower than in 2020. Confidence has generally trended downward since registering 48% in 1979 and holding near 45% in the 1980s. It averaged closer to 40% in the 1990s and early 2000 before dropping to the low 30% range in the 2010s.”

If this trend continues, Americans will have absolutely no trust left. Alongside this trend of lost trust is the corresponding trend of the progressive takeover of those institutions. The primary way to reestablish trust is to roll back progressive dominance and return to common sense.

First, the progressive takeover of key American institutions corresponds directly with the loss of trust in those........

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