Are these related. I don’t know
Analyzing polling results without context is an exercise in futility.
I believe a legitimate, viable argument can be made for the following: Gingrich gave a speech in 1977 which laid the foundations for the zero sum political game played by modern Republicans. In the ensuing years Fox News became the propaganda arm for "never compromise" Republicans. The goal was to dissemble government and at the same time ensconce themselves as the only power in Washington, in order to impose their brand of laws, which in turn can be viewed as a modern extension of CRT, extending not just non-whites, but also to people who do not agree with their policies. Bannon is the spokesperson and modern descendant of destruction of government. The path is to denigrate and marginalize government, bring it down, and replace with only those selective laws which empower their philosophy.
Like adding a tincture to water and watching the diffusion gradually saturate the whole, the poison of distrusting government has seeped into the mainstream. I suspect there is a difference in motivations for people to distrust government. For conservatives who have always been skeptical of government, they possess an inherent distrust which has been codified and mutated by modern dissemblers, while I suspect liberals distrust government because of it's failures to govern.
Complex issues can not be analyzed by reciting polling numbers as if they were conclusions.
