Confidence in U.S. Military Falls from 70% to 48% Since 2018 Print
BY TIMOTHY H. LEE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 08 2022
Although public trust has declined across multiple institutions in recent years, none of their declines match the decline of trust in the military, which has been especially pronounced.
Over recent decades, only three institutions – the military, small business and police – have consistently maintained “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of public confidence in levels exceeding 50%, according to annual surveys.
Conspicuously, each of those three institutions is traditionally associated more closely with conservative principles.
Naturally, the political left found that intolerable and set about working to cut them down to size.
Years of demonizing our nation’s police forces have brought record spikes in violent crime, as well as perilous recruitment and retention crises.
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