Trust is essential to the foundation of America's democracy,
asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South
Bend mayor. Yet, in a century warped by terrorism, financial
collapse, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, and now a global
pandemic, trust has been squandered, sacrificed, abused, stolen, or
never properly built in the first place. And now, more so than ever
before, Americans must work side by side to reckon with the
monumental challenges posed by our present moment. Interweaving
history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir,
Buttigieg explores the strong relationship between measures of
prosperity and levels of social trust. He provides an impassioned
account of a threefold crisis of trust: in our institutions, in
each other, and in the American project itself. Today, these
perilous patterns of distrust have wreaked havoc on nearly every
sector of society, as Americans increasingly resent the very
government that needs to be part of the solution. With the internet
and partisan television networks acting as accelerants, Americans
jettison any sense of shared reality, lose confidence in experts
and scientists, and cope with the grim national tragedy of a
pandemic that has only further exemplified the lethality of
distrust. Buttigieg contends that our success, or failure, at
confronting the greatest challenges of the decade-racial and
economic justice, pandemic resilience, and climate action-will rest
on whether we can effectively cultivate, deepen, and, where
necessary, repair the networks of trust that are now endangered, or
for so many, have never even existed. An urgent call to foster an
"American way of trust" at this painfully polarized juncture in the
nation's history, Trust is a direct reckoning with the prevailing
corruption of social responsibility. Yet refusing to give in to the
despair that threatens our foundations, Trust seeks to inspire
Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us
in the years to come.
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