Benjamin Wittes, Mieke Eoyang, and Ben Freeman of Lawfare were curious about the efficacy of the recent attacks on the credibility of the FBI by the extremist Republicans, so they did a survey:
The other day, curious about the impact of such attacks on public opinion, we put a very simple poll in the field using Google Surveys. It asked one question, polled between December 5-7: “How Much Confidence Do You Have in the FBI?”
The answer was striking:
The average confidence rating for the FBI in this poll measured in at 3.34. That compares favorably to any other institution we poll on, save the military, which had an average confidence score of 3.78.
I have no idea if Google Surveys are trustworthy, but I still will heave a sigh of relief on this report. If these attacks on the non-partisan institutions of our government were to cause them to crumble, we’d be facing chaos that results in blood and possible dissolution.
So this appears to be good news.
