In fact, #Americans as a whole no longer trust most of the institutions charged with managing the #US #empire, because those institutions have completely and utterly
failed the people. The only way to regain trust is to actually start
doing some decent things for the nation, but that's not what happens in
late-stage empire.
In
late-stage empire, the corrupt and foolish "ruling class" continues to
double and triple down on their own stupidity and theft until the whole
thing falls apart.