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On the recordAugust 13, 2020
Trust in our institutions has plunged over the last 20, 30 years. It started before Donald Trump got to office, but he has accelerated the downward spiral.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Gergen discusses the decline of trust in political institutions and attributes part of it to Trump's presidency.

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