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So much of what we do at The Free Press is try to make sense of a world where trust is broken.
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trust → try → world
What many see as a crisis of trust we think is, first and foremost, a crisis of trustworthiness.
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we → see → trustworthiness
From government and the media to education and medicine, institutions that fought hard to earn the public’s trust have squandered it.
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that → fight → it
That change is arguably the story of our time, and once you understand it, you see it everywhere—including in two of the most contentious debates of this moment: over data centers and Flock surveillance cameras.
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you → understand → centers
We’ve covered both of these fights here at The Free Press.
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We → cover → Press
At root, they get at something much deeper than the technology itself.
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they → get → technology
What’s really at stake is whether trust, once spent, can be earned back at all.
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trust → ’ → stake
That’s why, when we read Erick Erickson’s essay tracing this breakdown back to the pandemic, we decided to reprint it in our pages.
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we → ’ → pages
His analysis is unsparing in identifying who’s responsible on both sides of the aisle, and clear-eyed about what it will take to win the public back.
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it → identify → public
We are pleased to bring it to you today.
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We → please → you
In April of 2020, San Clemente, California, dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out of it.
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Clemente → dump → it
Other California cities followed suit.
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cities → follow → suit
Up the coast, sheriff’s deputies arrested a man for paddleboarding by himself in the Pacific Ocean.
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deputies → arrest → Ocean
Cities unbolted basketball rims.
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Cities → unbolt → rims
The mayor of Los Angeles told people that “snitches get rewards” and, God help us, people snitched, calling the tip lines on the neighbors whose grandkids came over.
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grandkids → tell → neighbors
Months later, Gavin Newsom violated his own Covid-19 protocols and enjoyed a dinner at The French Laundry.
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Newsom → violate → Laundry
The sand, the arrest, the missing basketball rims, the rewarded snitches, and the elite hypocrisy explain a lot about where we are as a nation, including things that look like they have nothing to do with Covid, like data centers and Flock cameras.
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they → reward → centers
In March 2020, Americans did as they were told.
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they → do → March
People closed businesses, local governments closed schools, and families canceled funerals.
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families → close → funerals
They waited for instructions from their elected leaders and public health officials because those officials said we needed two weeks to stop the spread.
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we → wait → spread
People generally trusted their institutions.
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People → trust → institutions
Civic trust is a limited resource in a free nation.
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trust → limit → nation
The press, politicians, bureaucrats, experts, and elite violated that trust until it was gone.
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it → violate → trust
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