Reeher Quoted in The Hill on Anti-Elitism, Public Distrust

December 7, 2021

The Hill

Grant Reeher

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Government

Media & Journalism

State & Local

United States

The Hill

Grant Reeher

Populism and anti-elitism have been two of the biggest forces shaping American society in recent years. “The thing that needs to be borne in mind is that there has been a very clear and significant decline in trust in all major institutions in the United States, government being the most notable one,” says Professor Grant Reeher. “It is the media, it is physicians, it is the church, it is corporations. We have seen it all across the board.” Read more in The Hill article, "The Memo: Elites' misdeeds fuel public distrust."