Great Trust Deficit: Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed

The Great Trust Deficit: Why We Expect Nothing and Still End Up Disappointed is a bluntly hilarious exploration of modern democracy's most baffling paradox: we know our leaders will fail, and somehow we still manage to be shocked when they do. This book charts the slow collapse of political faith—from an era when citizens believed politicians might actually try, to the present day, where campaign ...