The angry, divided American public has an increasing appetite for government reform, though the closeness of November’s vote between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton bodes ill for consensus on whether or not government should be pared back, a new study found.
Shifts in attitudes among different voter segments in recent years gave Trump “a unified base of small government/big reform supporters, but Secretary Clinton a base of big government supporters who were deeply divided on the need for government reform,” according to a report published on Thursday by the nonprofit Volcker Alliance. The analysis by Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University, is based in part on his August 2016 survey of 1,000 randomly selected Americans.
