If you gauge public perception by what the media says then that may be true.
Watching the intelligence community go full nuclear to undermine and destroy a democratically elected interloper president in coordination with the media is something that can't be unseen to many Americans.
It is becoming a less controversial view that an inappropriate amount of power is consolidated in the permanent unelected government employees.
> something that can't be unseen to many Americans
If the short/midterm/longterm response from "many Americans" is to be at all coherent/effective, then what they believe they saw had better jibe with reality.
Universe One: a cabal of chess hustlers cheat by surreptitiously moving a piece to their advantage. An anon films it and sends it anonymously to all the other chess players in the park.
Universe Two: a cabal of chess hustlers cheat by surreptitiously moving a piece to their advantage. An anon films it, then the film becomes part of a conspiracy theory that the players wearing red hats only ever lose because the non-red-hat-wearers have rigged the game against them. Anon creates an anon podcast that fuels the conspiracy theory for the half of the players who wear red hats.
In which universe would you guess the players have the best chance of banding together to throw the cabal of cheaters out of the park and return peace to the chess community?
Or an even simpler question-- if you were a chess hustler who cheated by subtly moving a piece, which universe would you choose to maximize your chances of escaping unscathed?
> Watching the intelligence community go full nuclear to undermine and destroy a democratically elected interloper president in coordination with the media is something that can't be unseen to many Americans.
Why does everything have to be about Trump? Public’s lack of support for Snowden, Assange and Manning was well before Trump.
>Watching the intelligence community go full nuclear to undermine and destroy a democratically elected interloper president in coordination with the media is something that can't be unseen to many Americans regardless of how you felt of trump.
I know you'll and half the US will never accept it, but Trump was only destroyed by his mishandling of COVID and his fulminating paranoid conspiracy theories about the election. He stood a chance at re-election, otherwise. There was no deep state/intelligence community/media conspiracy against him, his real enemy was always himself and his own ego.
I could say the same thing about the magic rock I keep on my front porch to ward off tigers. But the absence of tigers on my porch isn't evidence that my magic rock works.
People forget that for two+ years the intelligence community had the media reporting on some Q-annon level conspiracy that the president was colluding with the Russian government. If you recall most every story at the time was based on "unnamed sources", who do you think those sources were?
Occam's Razor. The Democrats weren't stealing the election, social media put up with Trump for years until his posts crossed a line, and Trump was throwing money at the military industrial complex. There's no need to invoke a massive conspiracy to explain the end of Trump's first term. He sabotaged his chance to unite the country under his leadership with COVID by making it a partisan wedge issue, because he wanted to run on the economy, and his ego couldn't handle mail-in ballots (which, thanks to his efforts to undermine his own base's faith in them, were almost entirely Democratic) turning his apparent victory around on him, so he cracked. His personality and ineptness at politics are sufficient to explain things.
Watching the intelligence community go full nuclear to undermine and destroy a democratically elected interloper president in coordination with the media is something that can't be unseen to many Americans.
It is becoming a less controversial view that an inappropriate amount of power is consolidated in the permanent unelected government employees.