This op-ed originally appeared in the Washington Times.
Americans’ precipitous loss of faith in American institutions is an important story — and a long-running one, at this point — but it isn’t the whole story.
Americans aren’t losing trust only in their justice system, higher education, legacy media organizations, one another, their religious leadership, scientists, banks or corporations. They are losing faith in the institutions empowered to directly change the social, economic and political order we all occupy.
They are losing faith in their ability to meaningfully alter or improve America through normal political means.
Read the full op-ed in the Washington Times.
