Trust in public officials often correlates less with personal virtue than with the incentives and constraints of the institutions they operate within.
The harder question isn’t who we trust, but which structures consistently reward trustworthy behavior over time.

One thing recent enforcement debates highlight is the gap between operational success and political endurance.
Heavy-handed tactics can produce immediate results and still fail if public backlash erodes trust over time.

Most political arguments are downstream of incentives people never see.
I’m interested in making those visible — not picking teams.