We’re also living through a multi-year global pandemic that has made life harder and less enjoyable for basically everyone. When life is hard, people blame the

We’re also living through a multi-year global pandemic that has made life harder and less enjoyable for basically everyone. When life is hard, people blame the current government. Obviously political preferences over entire populations can’t be reduced to single issues. Still, I’m guessing the negative impacts of the pandemic have made a major impact. IMO they have a lot of people thinking “why didn’t you handle this better?” (with widely differing views on what constitutes “better”), and thus resenting the government, even if there’s really no silver bullet for handling something awful like a pandemic.