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‘Mad as hell’: Americans vent anger, frustration over politics
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Public anger, fear and frustration with American politics reached another climax after the Supreme Court’s highly controversial July 1 decision in Trump v. United States. Those emotions continued spiraling until the attempted assassination of Donald Trump just two weeks later.
After the shooting, political leaders in both parties called for restraint and joined President Biden in asking all Americans to “lower the temperature” of political arguments and debate. However, American public trust in government has remained critically low for over a decade, suggesting deeper systemic problems, and it isn’t likely to improve overnight even if politicians can successfully defuse these simmering tensions.
In this 30-minute episode of America Speaks, pollster and political analyst Dr. Frank Luntz invites Americans to discuss their anger, frustration, hopes, and fears about the country’s future and their ideas about how to fix it.
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