The main divide in American politics today isn''t between liberals and conservatives or left and right.
It's between those who believe in the system and those who don''t.
And sometimes it really does feel like a matter of belief.
It's a visceral divide about whether basic institutions of American life - from the federal bureaucracy and financial markets to academia and the mainstream media - are working or broken.
But it's more than a feeling, and it's not entirely new.