27% Trust

Kayal and Company · Jul 15, 2026 · 32m

We examine Gallup’s finding that only 27% of Americans express strong confidence in 14 major institutions, including Congress, the press, public schools, organized religion, banks, police, health care and the criminal justice system. We connect that collapse to COVID mandates, censorship, shifting medical guidance and years of failed promises from Washington. Dawn frames the problem as broken trust, while Shawn argues that Americans should become less dependent on institutions that repeatedly fail them. The political discussion moves to limited government, public-school control, medical…