Government Confidence

The collapse in confidence in government from 77% in the 50s and 60s to 18% is one of the most striking changes in public philosophy of the last half century. Where that optimistic view of the government came from is up to debate. Likely Roosevelt. Confidence in governments is not part of the revolutionary changes of early America, not part of the division still persisting between America and Europe that could even be called a schism. Europe is a land of hereditary and military coercion aimed against its own citizens. Curiously, rather than drifting toward the American cynicism about government,  European philosophies seem to emerge to support these dangerous power-centric notions, rewriting them to justify these tyrannies in some new iteration.
The U.S. has been treated to these crazy ideas that have immigrated here in the person of displaced, unhappy revolutionaries, bringing European solutions to American non-problems. But now we have home grown national discussions supporting those ancient European pathologies. Interestingly, the young and dynamic AOC, sort of the Left's Trump, has thrown her considerable youth and energy behind those ancient fossils of hierarchical European thought.
But centralization will be a hard sell in a country where confidence in government is 18%.