Voters lost faith in US government?
A year ago, as they waited to hear then-candidate Donald Trump speak at a rally here, rank-and-file Make America Great Again supporters spoke of a government bureaucracy, if not outright conspiracy, intent on exploiting the very people it was designed to help.
U.S. Army veteran Maria Alexander lamented the loss of life in "endless wars" that did not put America's interests first. Michael Baust, an architectural designer, seethed about the "swamp" in Washington that had put the nation's security at risk by allowing a porous southern border. And local resident Gregg Smyth railed about a "deep state" fraternity – Democrats and Republicans alike – he said was "as padding their pockets" at the citizenry's expense.
Although chalked up as fringe by much of the country, Trump’s Nov. 5 election showed a much broader swath of the American electorate shared those concerns – or at least were more receptive to them.
Now, as the president-elect rolls out his Cabinet picks and key White House staff, a central theme has emerged: A second Trump administration is taking aim at dismantling the government they have been elected to manage – the very objective many of his most ardent supporters so desperately sought.
"You have much less belief that the government is honest, much less belief that it is competent, and much less belief that you can trust it," said Newt Gingrich, who served as House Speaker in the 1990s and has been Trump surrogate and ally. "I think it's clear Trump is dealing with a country which is much more opposed to big government and much more skeptical of big government than it has been at any time in the modern era."
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The Biden-Harris administration did seem inept on many issues from government spending to military conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. Their reckless spending policies spurred the largest increase in inflation in decades.
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