country. you come to us as a scholar. you're running for governor of massachusetts. if i were to ask you what was the single weakness that the pandemic exposed in american society and politics, what would you say that was? >> thanks so much for having me and for all the amazing work that you've been doing on democracy. the single greatest weakness exposed is that we've got a broken social contract. we don't trust each other. we don't trust our government, and we don't trust each other or our government because for years, folks have been asked to pitch in, pay taxes, work hard and haven't really gotten basic protections, access to basic health resources, basic security, and when the pandemic hit that broken social contract has shown in spades. we had a split screen reality where some folks got protection, others, hard working people and frontline workers and the like really didn't. so the fact that we have this sort of underlying problem of