While I agree that we are seeing a shift towards lower trust societies in the west, I can think of plenty of potential domestic causes.
But if you push for a lowtrust society, because these "upvalue" security providers in daily life and you think you must re-educate your fellow man away from "stupidity" towards being eternally paranoid on the lookout, you are a detriment.
If you plan to actively prosper from pushing the scam parasitism and decay on "suckers" or just poisoning a high-trust society with low-trust fabrications - you are the economic equivalent to a lethal parasite or contagion.
The Jordan Belforts and P.T. Barnums (and many more) have been a part of US society since the beginning.
You’re just able to see the snake oil salesman parting the rubes from their coin remotely, instead of only being able to see it if you’re standing right next to the rube.
Even with that happening, there are still plenty of rubes - and just like before, people who are trying to run the snake oil salesman out of town (but generally being ineffective at it).
No, all those trying to normalize the wild-west and those who try to prosper from the wild west- they have to go. Now. Wherever they came from. Take your low-thrust, non-working societies with you. The enablers too, if you want to co-exist with this, you are wrong here. You need to go. Now.