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Stewart also sees a concerted effort by Republican elites, especially Donald Trump, to discredit election administration by claiming that malevolent bureaucracies ("the deep state") stole the 2020 election from Trump. By the 2010s, assessments of every nonpolitical institution except banks were more polarized-with Republicans especially likely to trust police, religion, business, and Wall Street, and Democrats more trusting than Republicans of tv news, press, labor, television, and public schools. Where once political partisans had the same level of trust in most nonpolitical institutions except for business and labor, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to trust higher education, journalism and tv news, public schools, medicine, and science. In the 1970s, only business and labor showed significant polarization, with Republicans trusting business more than Democrats, and Democrats trusting labor more than Republicans. [Extracted from the article]