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A Union of Distrust

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

“We are in a low-trust moment, and it binds Right and Left together,” says a GOP pollster writing in The New York Times. Both sides are rapidly losing trust in institutions they once cherished — for example, the military on the part of Conservatives and the news media on the part of Progressives — and the result is a shaky alliance, a nation where no one trusts anything. Doesn’t sound exactly optimal to us. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

He's a uniter, not a divider. His name is Donald Trump. I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green,

0:06.0

and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

0:10.0

Gentlemen, there's an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, I'm sorry, New York Times, by Kristen Soltus Anderson, who's a GOP pollster,

0:19.0

about a phenomenon that she's seeing that's a real sea change in the way people

0:24.7

think and the way they vote and what they tell to pollsters a real shift underway that is

0:32.2

uniting the country around what we distrust.

0:38.3

And Stephen Green, you know, yeah, it's fascinating.

0:43.3

She throws out a couple of statistics in this New York Times column.

0:46.3

89% of American counties shifted rightward in the last election.

0:53.3

The voting gap between men and women shrank by 3%.

0:57.7

Voters under 30 and voters over 65, who in the last election were split by 30 points, are now just 12 points

1:07.2

apart. And non-white voters shifted more than 12 points toward Trump.

1:13.6

And what we're seeing, she says, is a new, I'm going to quote her here, a new bipartisan

1:19.9

alignment on skepticism about organizations, institutions, and professions, including

1:26.8

business, by the way, which has lost confidence

1:30.4

among Republicans. Trust in the military. The military as an institution used to be really big

1:37.1

in the Republican Party, losing points, massive points with Republicans right now. And Democrats

1:42.2

are losing faith in the media, which they used to be

1:44.3

hugely supportive of. And so their support of the media is dropping. And essentially what we're

1:48.7

seeing is these two groups coming together because they no longer trust some of the fundamental

1:55.4

institutions in our society. You know, academia, as you well know, back in 2014, believe it or not, about 50% of

2:04.8

Republicans believed in the U.S. higher education institutions. Now it's down to 20% and Democrats are

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