Public Trust in Government: 1958-2024.

Why this matters here

Pew Research Center's Public Trust in Government series tracks U.S. trust levels from 1958 through 2024 and documents a long decline across decades and parties. When Incentives Become the Moral Language places that trend beside metricized politics—without claiming Pew isolates a single cause—and asks when public speech begins to orbit countable signals rather than reasons institutions are willing to own.