Almost 40 percent of Americans believe “things have gotten so far off track” in the United States that the country “need[s] a leader who is willing to break some rules if that’s what it takes to set things right.”
The American Values Survey for 2023 found 48 percent of Republicans, 38 percent of Independents, and even 29 percent of Democrats now believe a rule-breaker may be required to get the country back on the track, for 38 percent of Americans overall.
Broken down by ethno-religious background, Hispanic Catholics were most supportive of the idea of a rule-breaking leader, at 51 percent, with white evangelicals a relatively distant second at 37 percent – one point behind the religiously unaffiliated.
The survey put the share of Americans who believe the country is going in the wrong direction at an astonishing 77 percent, including 90 percent of Republicans, 81 percent of Independents, and 59 percent of Democrats.
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An outright majority of Americans believe the country has changed mostly for the worse since the 1950s, and that “America’s best days are now behind us.”
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