The main divide in American politics today isn&t between liberals and conservatives or left and right.
It'sbetween those who believe in the system and those who don&t.
And sometimes it really does feel like a matter of belief.
It'sa 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'smore than a feeling, and it'snot entirely new.