People have gotten more and more exposed to how the government and politicians have been lying to them for decades. What would you expect but a low trust society with this.

Politicians have been breaking promises and not answering direct questions and burying inconvenient facts for decades.

They've only recently started directly lying.

There is a difference and conflating the two is a large part of the problem.

You can find examples of them lying in history, but those were huge scandals that brought down governments. Lying had consequences. That's what we've lost