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Over the course of the 50 years that I've been doing this, I think that the most important shift is that, with each kind of iteration of that, politics has gotten tougher, coarser and meaner," Balz told Goldberg.

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"I think this is a generally optimistic country, and I think people want the system to work and to succeed," Balz added. "But if you chart it, I mean if you chart trust in government, it fell off the cliff during Vietnam and Watergate, and it's basically been down ever since."

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