DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Andrew Yang’s New York Knicks Institutions Metaphor — The Darkest Metaphor Imaginable.

You have a leadership that can’t get out of its own way and then, when a legend like Charles Oakley comes back, or when a fan criticizes Dolan, he literally kicks them out of (Madison Square Garden) or bans them for life or does something that to me is the opposite of what you’d want a manager or leader to do. And so if you look at this and you’re a fan of the team, you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m giving this team my energy and emotional investment and the owner clearly doesn’t care about me or my opinion.’

This, to me, is an emblem of what Americans feel about various institutions in different walks of life. If you look at our trust in the press, or Congress, or unfortunately even schools and hospitals, they’re all at multi-decade lows.

As Glenn has noted, “We have too many people who are credentialed rather than educated, and too many people who think their education creates an automatic entitlement. The problem isn’t with ‘merit’ rising to the top, the problem is that we have a false and destructive idea of what constitutes merit.”