Just a moment...

Americans’ faith in the federal government remains historically low, partly because we simply can’t trust what it tells us.
That undermines the political left’s arrogant top-down model of micromanagement of our everyday lives by “expert” administrative state bureaucrats, since that model assumes that the data on which they rest their decrees is correct.
When that data is subsequently exposed as defective, it further calls their entire governance model into question.
The latest illustration arrives with a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) admission that its initial claim that crime dropped in 2022 was incorrect. After first reporting that crime fell by 2.1% that year, it just conceded that crime actually rose 4.5% instead.
Between those two reports, of course, Kamala Harris supporters and mainstream media – obviously an overlapping demographic – ran with the initial number in order to falsely “fact check” Donald Trump.