The following is an excerpt from a speech by Frank Buckley, a Foundation Professor at Scalia Law School at George Mason University. I have excerpted a section of the speech given at Hillsdale College on July 11, 2016. It can be found on line at http://Hillsdale.edu.
"In a corrupt country, trust is a rare commodity. That's America today. Only 19 percent of Americans say they trust the government most of the time, down from 73 percent in 1958 according to the Pew Research Center. Sadly, that is a rational response to the way things are. America is a different country today, and a much nastier one. For politically engaged Republicans, the figure is six percent. That in a nutshell explains the Trump phenomenon and the disintegration of the Republican establishment. If the people don't trust the government, tinkering with entitlement reform is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
American legal institutions are consistently more liberal than those in Canada, and they are biased towards a privileged class of insiders who are better educated and wealthier than the average American. That's why America has become an aristocracy."

Is Mr. Buckley right? I think he is.