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Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump's Russia problem

  • Written by Ian Anson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Historically, the high-water mark for American dissatisfaction with government was the 1970s — the era of Vietnam, Nixon and Watergate. AP Photo/John Duricka

White House special counsel Robert Mueller recently issued 12 indictments alleging that Russian intelligence agents sought to tilt the vote in Donald Trump’s favor by hacking...

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