HOW AMERICANS LOST FAITH IN OUR GREATEST INSTITUTIONS. By being betrayed? . . .

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Bob Krumm: In nothing we trust: and that’s the way it should be. “The institutions are not what made America great. The American people, who according to the Constitution were to be largely unconstrained by those institutions, are what made this nation great. Over the years we’ve strayed from that notion.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Eric Schubert sends this from Walter Russell Mead. And while we’re at it, it’s worth pointing out Angelo Codevilla on the Ruling Class.