David Brooks Calls for Dissolving the People

Nope, I'm not kidding. His column today is devoted to "the follower problem." He is upset that people are cynical and don't seem to trust the elites. Brooks tells us:

"I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership problem. Vast majorities of Americans don’t trust their institutions. That’s not mostly because our institutions perform much worse than they did in 1925 and 1955, when they were widely trusted."

Let's leave aside 1925 since it was a very differen...