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The Atlantic Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion. Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic In 1958 the American National Election Study began asking Americans whether they trusted the federal government to do the right thing all or most of the time. By this measure, American trust in government peaked at 77 percent in 1964, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the election of Lyndon B. Johnson. By the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency in...

The kind of crowd he could turn out. >> let me ask you on that, ron. given his current constituency, can he broaden his base supporters in terms of diversity, ethnic diversity with ocasio-cortez and omar and thats where he has struggled in some cases. >> right. if you go back to 2016, he was very competitive with african-american voters under 30. and then really fell off the table for older voters. i suspect we will see something similar in 2020. and as kind of as matt was saying the real impact...