Tweet [1]
… is from George Will’s most-recent column – “The slow decline of America since LBJ launched the Great Society [2]” – in the Washington Post (original links):
In 1964, 76 percent of Americans [3] trusted government to do the right thing “just about always or most of the time”; today, 19 percent do [4]. The former number is one reason Johnson did so much; the latter is one consequence of his doing so.