feel angry toward the government % who say theyfeel fangry toward the federal government
While the overall share who are angry is unchanged, Republicans and Democrats have moved in opposite directions since 2015. A year before the 2016 presidential election, one-third of Republicans said they were angry with the government, compared with about one-in-ten Democrats (11%). About a year after Trump’s inauguration, the share of Republicans saying they were angry had declined to 19%, while the share of Democrats saying this had increased to 29%. Today, about one-third of Democrats (34%) say they are angry, compared with just 14% of Republicans.
About a third of Democrats now say they  | feel angry toward the government  | % who say theyfeel fangry toward the federal  | government  | Clinton  | G.W. Bush  | Obama  | Trump  | 38  | 34  | 33  | Dem/  | 32  | 29  | 29  | Lean Dem  | Rep/  | 25  | Lean Rep  | 17  | 19  | 14  | 8  | 11  | 11  | '97  | I'OO  | '04  | '08  | 12  | '16  | '20  | Source: Survey of U.S. adults cond ucted July 27-Aug. 2, 2020.  | Trend sources: Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel  | (2020), Pew Research Center phone surveys (2019 and earlier).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 