How to Respond When Others Start Losing Faith in Trump’s Promises

From the Epstein files to broader cracks in the story — a strategy for meeting disillusionment with Trump with clarity, care, and purpose.

Dear friends

Last week I wrote about the renewed furore over the Epstein files — and why the real story isn’t what’s still sealed, but what’s already out in the open. I said that the documents have become a kind of distraction, that while we fixate on what might be revealed, we’re overlooking what the system’s response to those revelations has already shown us.

This Is Not Just About the Files. It’s About What We Do Now.

Today I want to build on that. Because if the real lesson is in how power protects itself even after exposure, then the next question becomes: What do we do when that illusion starts to crack for someone else?

That’s what this strategy is for. It’s about how we meet that disillusionment when it surfaces in the people around us. And it’s especially important now, as more and more people are beginning to question the stories they’ve been told, and once trusted.

We can either lean-in to that and support them, or mock them and alienate them further. The choice is up to us.