NY Times Editorial: The Trust Gap

We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less.

This has been a central flaw of Mr. Bush's presidency for a long time. But last week produced a flood of evidence that vividly drove home the point.

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