In the case of the GOPe it is trust repeatedly and reliably lost.
Our once governing institutions have been corrupted from their designed purposes. The House doesn't represent the people. The Senate doesn't represent the states. El Presidente has more in common with banana republic tyrants that he does with any of our early chief executives.
Isn't it clear that elections alone cannot, and obviously have not served the only legitimate purpose of government, which is to secure our rights?
We must renew, restore, reclaim our republic. Those who profit so well from the existing corrupt system are incapable and uninterested in changing the status quo.