Confidence in America has been put in a free fall by the presidency of Joe Biden, according to a sobering and critical new Gallup report.
Handed a nation on the rise in 2020 by the Trump administration, the line tracking the confidence people have in their national government has been in nonstop decline.
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At 46% in 2020, it now squats at 31%.
“After President Joe Biden took office, confidence in government slipped to 40% in 2021 and again to 31% in 2022. This is on par with the lowest rates of confidence measured in the U.S. government since Gallup started tracking it globally in 2006,” the pollster said.
Confidence in the government by adults polled has not been high for a decade, Gallup’s data show, and each recent president has seen low points.
It compared the U.S. ratings with others in the Group of Seven club of economic powers and found America at the bottom. Confidence is twice as high in Germany, which tops the list.
“Roughly one in three adults in the U.K. (33%) and U.S. (31%) say they have confidence in their national governments, putting them at the bottom of the G7 countries,” Gallup said. In 2006, America was No. 1.
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What’s more, foreign confidence in Biden’s leadership is low. “Declining domestic confidence in the U.S. government has occurred alongside declining approval ratings on the world stage. Median global approval of U.S. leadership slipped to 41% in 2022, down from 45% in 2021 during Biden’s first year in office,” Gallup said.
For perspective, Venezuelans have the same confidence in their government as Americans do in the Biden administration, Gallup said.
