A nasty year comes to an end as we examine the collapse of trust in America's institutions.

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taught us a couple of things, it's taught us a couple of things. One, the American people are

incredibly resilient, like truly resilient. This has been an awful year, a truly bad year,

hundreds of thousands of Americans, dead of COVID, a political system that has lost the trust

of the American people, and I think in many

cases rightly so, an institutional infrastructure in the United States that has undermined our

trust in those institutions. The American people have withstood all of this, which is why I'm

optimistic, despite all of that, going into next year, because the Republic still stands.

And more importantly,

I think that Americans are tough-minded enough to have withstood this awful year. And moving forward,

I think that there is every possibility that things could get better in spite of all the obstacles we face. But one thing has become clear above all else in the middle of all of this. And that is,

we need new institutions. We need new institutions or we need to remake the institutions that currently govern us. And that is, we need new institutions. We need new institutions,

or we need to remake the institutions that currently govern us. I'm not just talking about the U.S. government. And I'm not just talking about the people who staff up the administrative agencies in the U.S. government. I'm talking about Hollywood. I'm talking about the scientific establishment. I'm talking about social media. I'm talking about corporations. What we have watched over the past couple of decades is the complete remaking of all the institutions in which

America establishment. I'm talking about social media. I'm talking about corporations. What we have watched

over the past couple of decades is the complete remaking of all the institutions in which

Americans place their trust. And in fact, the only institutions where the constituency didn't

really change radically, those are the institutions that have been under attack by the newfangled

institutions like the military and the police, right? Those are the institutions that are under

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