Treating trust as central to politics does not require naive credulity

Evidence

To see trust as a modality of action as central to the understanding of politics is certainly not to commend a strategically inept credulity or a sentimental misconstruction of the intelligence, ability, or benignity of the great. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1075

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘trust as central to political understanding’ does not mean — sharpens the conceptual frame against strawman readings.