Extreme Alienation In U.S. Politics

A new University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics poll finds that more than one in four Americans are so alienated from their government that they believe it may “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it.

“That startling finding, which comes in the midst of congressional hearings into the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was just one of several reflections of the dangerous level of estrangement many Americans feel from each other and our democratic institutions.”