Trust in media has been declining since 1976. It dropped more from 1976-1997 than it dropped from 1997 to 2008. Depending on specifically what years you pick around 2008 to now you'll see an every so slightly larger or slightly smaller shift than that initial 1976-1997 period. Since 2016 there have been some wild swings down and back up, but what that tells me some people you're considering awake aren't, because their trust changes based on what is happening and can be restored quickly. 1/3 of the Country still trusts them.

Homeschooling still accounts for less than 10% of students and the big jump in numbers coincides with schools closing during Covid, not specifically some great awareness and backlash to the poisonous ideological indoctrination happening in those schools.

I think what we're seeing is more of a radicalization of those that were already believers more than we're seeing normies truly changing what they believe. If you went back 20 years in time and grabbed a Blue Dog Democrat from that era I think they'd be beating both Biden and Trump in the polls.