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.
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.
"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."