Amer­i­cans More Hope­ful on the Direc­tion of the Coun­ty After Elec­tion but Much Work to Do

Three weeks after the elec­tion of Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump, which con­sti­tut­ed the largest swell of pop­u­lar sup­port for a Repub­li­can can­di­date in 20 years – Amer­i­cans are more hope­ful about the future, but there is still work to be done to restore access to the Amer­i­can Dream.

Accord­ing to YouGov sur­vey data from this week com­pared to a sur­vey tak­en the week before the elec­tion, the share of Amer­i­cans say­ing the coun­try is off on the wrong track has declined sev­en per­cent­age points, from 64 per­cent of Amer­i­cans to 57 per­cent. Well over half the coun­try believ­ing the Unit­ed States is on the wrong track is not exact­ly a win, but it does say some­thing that that num­ber is the low­est it has been in many months.

Notable declines in the share of Amer­i­cans say­ing the coun­try is head­ed in the wrong direc­tion include His­pan­ics, young peo­ple and inde­pen­dents. The share of His­pan­ics say­ing the Unit­ed States is off on the wrong track has declined twelve points over that time­frame, from 62 per­cent to 50 per­cent. The share of inde­pen­dents say­ing the coun­try is off on the wrong track has declined sev­en points, from 72 per­cent to 65 per­cent.

Young peo­ple appear par­tic­u­lar­ly opti­mistic post-elec­tion, with the share of young peo­ple who say the Unit­ed States is on the wrong track declin­ing a star­ling six­teen per­cent­age points in less than a month, from 49 per­cent to 33 per­cent. Yes, only one-third of young peo­ple now say the coun­try is head­ed in the wrong direc­tion, down from near­ly half of them less than four weeks ago.

With Trump’s vic­to­ry, his favor­a­bil­i­ty has risen four points since before the elec­tion, and he now stands at a favor­able rat­ing of 48 per­cent and an unfa­vor­able rat­ing of 47 per­cent. Pri­or to the elec­tion, Trump’s favor­able rat­ing stood at 44 per­cent and his unfa­vor­able rat­ing stood at 54 per­cent.

Trump’s unfa­vor­able rat­ing among vot­ers under 30 has dropped almost 20 per­cent­age points in under a month, going from 59 per­cent to 40 per­cent. Trump now sits at a net favor­able rat­ing among young peo­ple of twelve points, 52 per­cent to 40 per­cent.

Two-thirds of Amer­i­cans (64 per­cent) still believe in the Amer­i­can Dream accord­ing to anoth­er YouGov sur­vey released this week, but there are wide bar­ri­ers to achiev­ing it accord­ing to most vot­ers.

When asked about bar­ri­ers to achiev­ing the Amer­i­can Dream, most Amer­i­cans cit­ed issues that have large­ly been brought about by gov­ern­ment mis­steps, includ­ing a high cost of liv­ing (74 per­cent), cor­rup­tion (55 per­cent), tax­a­tion (45 per­cent), and gov­ern­ment itself (38 per­cent). Far few­er Amer­i­cans said that cap­i­tal­ism was a bar­ri­er to achiev­ing the Amer­i­can dream (21 per­cent).

Amer­i­cans, espe­cial­ly young peo­ple, are increas­ing­ly opti­mistic about the direc­tion of the coun­try since we appear to have shift­ed off a cat­a­stroph­ic track that includ­ed a Kamala Har­ris pres­i­den­cy. That said, vot­ers are incred­i­bly clear about the issues that have put the Amer­i­can Dream in jeop­ardy, and they are call­ing out the issues big gov­ern­ment has cre­at­ed.

The Unit­ed States was at the tail-end of a long, gru­el­ing decline, and the people’s choice on Novem­ber 5^th has restored hope in many vot­ers that the coun­try can be restored before it is too late. That said, it will take dis­man­tling cor­rupt gov­ern­ment sys­tems that lim­it poten­tial, low­er­ing tax­es for the work­ing-class, and focus­ing on Amer­i­ca First eco­nom­ic poli­cies like ener­gy inde­pen­dence to low­er the costs of basic neces­si­ties.

Man­zani­ta Miller is the senior polit­i­cal ana­lyst at Amer­i­cans for Lim­it­ed Gov­ern­ment Foun­da­tion.

Cross-post­ed with The Dai­ly Torch

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