On Politics and Trust: A Growing Problem of Modern Life

These two rather different voters seem to be voicing a question every voter answers at some level of thought or intuition: Whom can I trust? In the past this was mostly an implicit question that assumed that a satisfactory answer could be found. But here the question becomes explicit, perhaps because finding an answer may be more difficult than it used to be. Nor are these idiosyncratic responses; trust has become a major problem for American voters.