But his rise was a bipartisan phenomenon as well, given Americans' historically low trust in government.
It is hardly surprising that each year Edelman's Trust Barometer shows extremely low trust in the private sector across the world.
Robert Putnam, the analyst of social capital, has also found a link between high ethnic mix and low trust in the US.
She wants a lot of things dealt with: the pay gap, air pollution, high fares, low trust in the police, cuts in frontline policing.
Only 16% cited poor performance as a cause of low trust in business, whose top negatives were corruption or fraud (27%) and wrong incentives driving business decisions (23%).
Only full disclosure can restore historically low trust in politicians and corporations, while ensuring that Americans don't get lost amid the "campaign jungle".
China has been described by social scientists such as Francis Fukuyama as a "low trust" society, where rumors quickly set off mass panic.
Afghans have the misfortune to have inherited a mostly dysfunctional society characterized by low trust.
The basic idea is to eliminate the reports from users who have consistent low trust values.
Low trust entails higher transaction costs, as suspicious people protect themselves with negotiations, detailed contracts and lawyers.
