Every good mafia-state propaganda minister, from Goebbels to Peskov to Russell Vought, knows they must puncture the balloon of trust in good-governance institutions. No one supports a corrupt Authoritarian government until they’ve thrown up their hands in frustration because “They’re all crooks.”
Mark CopelovitchI look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...