And one of the biggest things I've found in researching the book is that it's reciprocal. This, I think, is the critical question for our time.
And we're not going to be able to navigate that if we can't at least agree that we're living with the same facts." "Trust in government to do the right thing, trust in one another and even global trust in the United States as a whole. "It reflects the broader reality we're living in - a combination of our political reality and our media environment - that has really created what I view as a threefold crisis in trust," Buttigieg says. Americans have a declining trust in each other as well. adults say they trust the federal government to "do the right thing." The low trust in government predates Donald Trump's presidency and goes back more than a decade. He builds upon this idea, with his own life experiences, in his new book, Trust: America's Best Chance.Ī 2020 survey from the Pew Research Center shows just 20% of U.S. "Honesty is in our nature, and it is one of our greatest means of restoring faith in our democracy among everyday Americans and building a national movement rooted in trust and faith in our country and our beliefs," his campaign said.
And he says building that trust, in both American institutions and fellow citizens, is the only way to address the other challenges facing the country.īuttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., called trust one of his "rules of the road" during his presidential campaign.
Months after dropping out of the Democratic presidential primaries, Pete Buttigieg is back with a warning: America, he says, is facing a crisis of trust. Former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, pictured in Charleston, S.C., in February.
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