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Even if the next president is sane, it will take a long time to change the culture. Once border control agents get more power (or the feeling that they can use their power more arbitrarily), they will want to keep it. Also, the legal framework is not going to go back in time, either.

It would take time to re-establish trust.



Several languages have idioms like these: "Trust arrives on foot, and leaves on a galloping horse"


Gain respect by drops, lose it by the buckets.




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