“The entire modern Democrat party grew up in an era where there was consensus. They grew up in a high social trust era. A lot of them are trying to reimpose that social trust from the top, not recognizing that social trust came organically from the way American society worked. If you have people trying to reimpose it from the top, it degrades the very thing you're trying to create.”
This does not sound like adventurous or alarming thinking in the podcast, blog, and substack world. We have heard lots of people talk like this. But it is a very unusual thing for a politician to offer. All the presidents, VP's, and opposition candidates in my lifetime would understand the idea easily. But I can't think of another who would bring it up as a topic for discussion.
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Did he go on to discuss the things we know to reduce or form social trust? That’s going to be a hard conversation to have.
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