Maggie's Farm

From George Will's Scowling face of the state:

 Government requires trust. Government by progressives, however, demands such inordinate amounts of trust that the demand itself should provoke distrust. Progressivism can be distilled into two words: “Trust us.” The antecedent of the pronoun is: The wise, disinterested experts through whom the vast powers of the regulatory state’s executive branch will deliver progress for our own good, as the executive branch understands this, whether we understand it or not. Lois Lerner is the scowling face of this state, which has earned Americans’ distrust.

From Henninger's The Sum of All Fears - The IRS audits and NSA surveillance flow into the same
national anxieties:

 Whatever inchoate anxieties predated this presidency are now worse: a politics rife with suspicion and retribution, and most of the people believing the government, for starters, threatens their freedom.

But how about this:  Not Shocking At All: Obama’s Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers

We New England Yankees assert that it is un-American to trust governments. That's the whole point, the reason we exist as a nation.