30y “for a range of central elements of American society — Congress, the police, the church, the news media, the presidency — confidence has gotten lower and lower as the decades have passed.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/17/trust-institutions-authoritarianism-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyNzI0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU0MTA3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI3MjQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjM5OWFlYjA1LTU2YjktNGE0OC1iZTIxLWJlNmEwN2IzMzcwNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA3LzE3L3RydXN0LWluc3RpdHV0aW9ucy1hdXRob3JpdGFyaWFuaXNtLXRydW1wLyJ9.79uEl7NS5fWfwl__Wt0hhGXBrSHQBfo65QNcGRkH3jc

30y fits my personal opinion. Trump is the efflorescence of a thing that has been growing since the peak of American socioeconomic power.