Trust & constitutional foundations

Government trust · live

The "we still love the Constitution but don't trust the players" tension, expressed as numbers. Anchors are 2025-era public surveys (Pew / Gallup / Partnership for Public Service) wobbled by the engine's political-instability signal so the index drifts with the news cycle.

Trust by branch & level — live engine values

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Federal gov
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Congress
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Judiciary
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State gov
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Local gov
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Constitutional belief

Partisan splinter (2025 anchors)

~12
Democrats trust federal
~38
Republicans trust federal
~22
Independents trust federal

Constitutional-foundations crisis risk

Low federal-trust + still-high constitutional-belief produces a litigation-and-protest crisis profile rather than an authoritarian-slide profile. The engine ranks the "Constitutional-foundations crisis" scenario when:

People who venerate the rules but distrust the players are more likely to appeal to courts and protest in the streets than to accept naked-power grabs.

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