Ya can’t go backwards…..
It doesn’t work THAT way….
When Donald Trump was president, Republicans generally thought life had improved since the 1950s. Since he’s left office, more are longing for white, Christian America’s ‘golden age,’ a survey shows.
Has American Culture Changed for Better or for Worse Since the 1950s?
Americans are divided on whether American culture and way of life have mostly changed for the better or for the worse since the 1950s (47% vs. 52%). This is a notable shift from 2020, the final year of Donald Trump’s presidency and an election year, when a majority of Americans (55%) said that American culture and way of life had mostly changed for the better since the 1950s, com-pared to 44% who said it had changed for the worse.
Only 29% of Republicans today say that American culture and way of life have changed for the better since the 1950s, a substantial decrease from 46% in 2020 and a return to their opinion in 2016 (31%), prior to the election of former President Trump. Most Republicans (70%) say Ameri- can culture and way of life have changed for the worse since the 1950s. By contrast, a majority of Democrats (63%) think that American culture and way of life have changed for the better, much the same as in 2020 (62%). Independents closely resemble the general population (48% better) and have also declined in this view since 2020 (57% better).
White Christian religious groups also show a considerable decline in the proportion who say American culture and way of life has changed for the better since the 1950s compared to 2020, but like Republicans, they have generally returned to views reminiscent of those they held in 2016, prior to Trump’s election as president. White evangelical Protestants (30% today, 43% in 2020), white Catholics (40% today, 53% in 2020), and white mainline (non-evangelical) Protestants…
A recent survey released by the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI)