mr. waldman? guest: the caller points to something that is important. gallup recently measured trust in institutions, they asked people how much faith they have it all sorts of institutions, they found trust in institutions is at its lowest point since you have been asked to the questions -- that is a situation that is very good for republicans. they are part of the party that say government is bad and you are on your around. the more things feel out of control, the better that is for republicans. first because democrats control the federal government right now. also because it plays into the general conservative ideology that says you are on your around , that you cannot rely on the government to help you come you cannot rely another institutions to help you. the more it feels like those institutions are not providing for you and not solving the problems, the more it seems like the republican argument is right. you have a situation where there is a lot of that kind of sense. anything that goes wrong, we have the pandemic lingering for years, we have in

mr. waldman? guest: the caller points to something that is important.p recently measured trust in institutions, they asked people how much faith they have it all sorts of institutions, they found trust in institutions is at its lowest point since you have been asked to the questions -- that is a situation that is very good for republicans. they are part of the party that say government is bad and you are on your around. the more things feel out of control, the better that is for republicans. first because democrats control the federal government right now. also because it plays into the general conservative ideology that says you are on your around , that you cannot rely on the government to help you come you cannot rely another institutions to help you. the more it feels like those institutions are not providing for you and not solving the problems, the more it seems like the republican argument is right. you have a situation where there is a lot of that kind of sense. anything that goes wrong, we have the pandemic lingering for years, we have inflatio