Reagan Is Still Right

President Reagan used to say that government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem. Perhaps this basic insight was the reason he won two landslide presidential elections. Nearly four decades after the second of those landslide victories, a lot of Americans still agree with him.

“More Americans name the government as the nation’s top problem in Gallup’s latest poll,” reports the survey organization’s Megan Brenan. When asked to name the “most important problem facing this country,” 21% cite “The government/Poor leadership.”

This is the most popular answer in the survey, and there’s not much of a partisan divide, according to Gallup:

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