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He says elite failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID policy have destroyed trust in government, media, science, the military, and other institutions.
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Institutional Trust
He says elite failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID policy have destroyed trust in government, media, science, the military, and other institutions.
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Jiang says no institution in America can bring people together anymore because media, science, the military, universities, government, and courts have all lost trust.
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"So, they came to believe that the problem was democracy itself. The problem is that people could not be reasoned with. Therefore, liberalism makes..."
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"And everyone was screwed, okay? Then you had COVID, right? COVID. Where the... The government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could..."
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"They're always lying to us, right? New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, they're just liars, okay? So, no one trusts the media anymore. Then..."
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"And number three is there are no more authority figures, no more institutions that can bring people together. They're going to divide people, okay?..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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