Why Do Americans Fear Government So Much?
Healthy skepticism toward public institutions can be welcome in a civil society that allows for conversation and debate power structures. But, the last few decades of anti-government sentiment have proven to truly degrade trust in government across the board, culminating in President Donald Trump\u2019s four years of his administration that attacked \u201croot and branch\u201d the legitimacy of the administrative state and government itself.\xa0
Dr. Lisa Parshall is a Professor of Political Science at Daemen University. She\u2019s one of the authors of the book, Directing the Whirlwind: The Trump Presidency and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State, now in its second edition. In the first part of a\xa0two-part discussion, she joined the podcast to discuss\xa0how the Jan. 6 insurrection affected the public\u2019s view of government and the different approaches to administrative power.
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