Analysis: Nearly as many Republicans said they were “extremely dissatisfied” with democracy — rating it at 0 — as had rated democracy at 6 or higher the year prior, according to recent polling from YouGov. Democratic views didn’t change much at all.
By 1977, though, the country had turned something of a corner. Jimmy Carter was president, with an approval rating north of 50 percent as measured by Gallup that November. The economy was still wobbly, though the country had emerged from recession. Most importantly, America had survived the test posed by the Nixon presidency.
There are, of course, two ways in which Americans think democracy is under threat, each upheld by one of the two major parties.Republicans believe that voting results are suspect, that elections cannot be trusted to reflect the will of the electorate. This idea has been stoked without pause by former president Donald Trump for more than three years, in accordance with his desire not to be seen as having lost the 2020 presidential election.
In 1977, there wasn’t much of a gap between the two parties in how satisfied they were with American democracy. Half of Democrats rated it at 7 or higher; slightly more Republicans did. Even last year, there wasn’t much of a divide. About 4 in 10 members of each party rated their satisfaction at 6 or above, though Democrats were more likely to express higher levels of satisfaction.
What changed between the June 2022 poll and the June 2023 one? For one thing, Republicans again did worse than many of them expected in an election. In Arizona, baseless allegations about voter fraud again became a focus of agitation on the right, largely stoked by theThree-quarters of Republicans now rate their satisfaction with American democracy at 4 or lower. In 1977, only 16 percent of Republicans did.
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