There is a significant decline in public trust regarding mainstream media and institutions, leading people to favor more transparent, individual-led sources of information.

“we're like show me what's real because I do not trust puppets who parrot things from teleprompters”

The government is prioritizing the protection of elites over the interests of the public.

“And it's clear at this point who they're appeasing. Who is it? They're appeasing the elites. Yeah. Because they know that the mob, us, we can't do anything.”

Ben Shapiro maintains that the fundamental issue in the United States is a widespread loss of trust in essential truth-making institutions, which are increasingly replacing truth with narratives.

“Our institutions have been rotted out. They've maintained a lot of their power, but they've retained none of their original philosophy. These sort of foundations upon which they were built have been rotted away. I've said before on my show that a lot of our institutions are being worn around kind of”

Public trust has reached an all-time low because institutions have been corrupted by narcissists and are failing to provide transparency.

“I think that something's got to break we're at a I think a pivotal moment in in human history and American history the distrust is at an all-time high people don't trust the media they don't trust the government they don't trust our institutions so we need to start seeing some big changes”

The host advises against trusting legacy media and government institutions because they are perceived as corrupt and manipulative.

“Take a little bit from over here, take a bit from over here, and as long as the results are don't ever trust the media, don't ever trust the government, you won't go far wrong.”

While institutions have been flawed and have embarrassed themselves, the remedy is to apply established standards rather than abandoning them.

“The antidote to that to the failures of institutions is not new standards. It's it's really to apply the old standards.”

Failure to be truthful in Senate hearings regarding the integrity of the 2020 election erodes public trust in democratic institutions.

“And if you stand there in the Senate, my son, and you say that you are telling the truth and then you do not tell the truth over something as consequential as whether an American election was stolen, then you are destroying trust in institutions.”

Academic freedom must be robustly defended, and university institutions require a diversity of voices.

“I've been concerned about the attacks on uh on universities. I think now I understand that universities need to make sure that they have conservative voices and that there's robust debate and we can have that argument but attacking them in my view is not uh the solution.”