[Maru]

Yes people had been saying stuff like that before the election. My feel is that people are in general fatigued by their current leadership and what they supposedly haven't done for them and that's the most significant cause... the immigration issues just add more salt to the wound when they hear/see the amount of money being spent there. Another change is that on average more people have stories about how government and government policies have personally effected them then we used to hear... most of it is negative so adds to culture of resentment.. Government and daily life are now closer than it used to be for more people, it seems, especially people who are really dependent on things to go their way, ie living paycheck to paycheck... and I think that's inevitably going to be true in a post-COVID world.