[jimhefferon]

My reading of the news is that in the US (and that I can see, in many places) a lot of people have been convinced not to believe experts.

[mmaul]

The trend is growing here to, sadly. It's not people disagree with experts experts but that truth told by the, disagrees with a distorted perception or reality.

[synecdoche]

Or the other way around; the so called experts are actually tools in a propaganda machine, and people choose to rather believe their own experiences than second hand information.