Read more. Members from the other party were once more willing to give a new president some benefit of the doubt early on — or at least, their opposition was not quite so baked in, as the figures for both Bush and Barack Obama suggest.
This is certainly borne out in attitudes toward the economy : Democrats thought the economy was immediately doing worse once Trump took office, while Republicans immediately thought it was getting worse after Biden won the election. Those are sentiments that are likely to keep both camps more firmly entrenched in their partisan camps moving forward.
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Jul 23, Eric Alterman. Aug 6, Eric Alterman. You Might Also Like. Nov 16, Oct 13, Eric Alterman. Print newspapers continued a long-term decline, with sharp cuts in newspaper staffing and a severe dip in average circulation. Newspaper editorial staff in the U. While television remains a major source of news for Americans, there are signs of change. Viewership of local TV newscasts has been flat or declining for years, depending on the time of day. Overall, Americans remained extremely wary of the news media.
Nearly three-quarters said in a separate survey that the news media are biased. But for all the skepticism facing the media, Americans continued to value the watchdog functions of the press. While the election may be one for the history books, looking ahead requires equal measures of caution and humility, particularly when it comes to politics and public policy.
It remains to be seen, for example, whether Donald Trump will push forward on some of his highest-profile campaign priorities, such as constructing a wall on the U. On some of his priorities, Trump appears to have the support of the public; on others, he appears to be out of step with public sentiment. Either way, history suggests that opinion can change significantly as general proposals move to concrete legislation. Still, there are certain bigger trends we know are going to continue and others that show no signs of reversing.
Americans seem to expect major changes: More than six-in-ten, for example, believe that within 50 years, robots or computers will do much of the work that is currently done by humans. The demographic changes that have taken hold across the U. The nation as a whole will turn grayer and its racial and ethnic diversification is expected to continue: In less than 40 years, the U.
The foreign policy challenges facing this politically fractured nation seem endless, from Russia and China to terrorism and the environment.
At home, financial prosperity — even stability — feels increasingly out of reach to many Americans: Today, far more people are pessimistic than optimistic about life for the next generation of Americans.
Yet the United States enters this uncertain new era with undeniable, if often overlooked, strengths. Republicans and Democrats, for example, differ dramatically over whether the nation has gotten more or less powerful as a global leader over the past decade, but majorities in both parties say the U. And most Americans say that one of the hallmarks of U. It is tempting to believe that the pace of change in the U. As significant as the current moment of transition is, however, only the passage of time can reveal the trends that will truly have lasting importance.
Michael Dimock is the president of Pew Research Center, where he leads a domestic and international research agenda to explain public attitudes, demographic changes and other trends over time. A political scientist by training, Dimock has been at the Center since and has co-authored several of its landmark research reports, including studies of trends in American political and social values and a groundbreaking examination of political polarization within the American public.
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