f the 2024 election told us nothing else, it confirmed that the voters aren’t nearly as credulous as the Democrats and the corporate media believe them to be. Indeed, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center six weeks prior to the election, only 22 percent of American adults believed news organizations deal fairly with all sides. Ironically, considering that the news coverage of the Trump administration has been overwhelmingly negative, the primary beneficiaries of this brazenly biased reporting appear to have been President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Despite questionable polls that purport to show President Trump and the GOP falling out of favor with the voters, both enjoy higher favorability ratings than the Democrats. According to RealClearPolitics, Trump currently stands at 45.4 percent. This does suggest that there has been some erosion, but it isn’t particularly alarming when compared with the abysmal ratings endured by prominent Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for example, languishes at 28.0 percent. Likewise, the GOP’s favorability rating seems inauspicious at 42.2 percent until it is compared to the Democratic Party’s anemic 33.8 percent rating.

Far more important than such ephemeral polling, however, is the increasing tendency of voters to support the GOP — at the federal and state level. In addition to controlling the White House and Congress, the Republicans also enjoy governing trifectas in 23 states according to Ballotpedia. The Democrats hold trifectas in 15 states. As recently as 2010, the GOP held only 9 state trifectas and the Democrats held 16. Can this reversal of fortune really be attributed to voter distrust of the corporate media? Megan McArdle says yes in the Washington Post and leftist political scientist Yascha Mounk offers the same answer in a Substack essay: