The way you need to think about trust is Linux kernel deals with security ... thing about having a set of ever larger rings around you.

Ring 0 - You. You trust your self the most, but not 100% as we are fallible. This is as good as trust gets.

Ring 1 - Your family. Every family has a judas and every family has the rightous. It's hard to tell who is who until shit hits the fan, but if you nurture those relationships correctly (especially if you are a man you need to know how to work with your core team, your family) you know you can usually trust them the most.

Ring 2 - Your inner friends. At the end of our lives, we can count our true friends on one hand. My father had some amazing friends to whom I am ever greatful that they always had his back. I use a test on my friends, I don't call for a long time to see if they call first. if they call you, you have an indication that there is a level of trust there. Obviously, you don't trust them as much as family but there are various grades of trust in ring 2.

Ring 3 - Various external communities and groups will have very low levels of trust, but can be built up over time depending on the organization and individuals in that organzation at any point in time.

Ring 4 - Various government agencies ... zero trust.

Ring 5 - Your country ... zero trust. Your country will send your sons into war as cannon fodder for the vile the evil and the vicious. Read up on WW2 and WW1, you will be surprised to find FOR WHOM our sons died in those wars ... it's not the people the history books teach our children. Now, this ring is the most interesting BECAUSE you are your country. What this means is that if you work to engage and make sure the top of the country is honourable, brave and true, trust can be increased. You can directly affect the trust level of the country, as we have seen over the last 4 years.

Take Trump stabbing us in the back today with no Assange or Snowden pardon. He has lost a lot of trust for me today for sure, he has made a ton of mistakes including listening to those traitors Jared and Ivanka Kushner. But, that does not erase the tremendous gains he made on our own behalf even with the entire establishment alligned against him and us.

They say trust but verify. Weeeellll ... okay, but use that approach and merge it with the above security ring approach. It will really help you zero in on levels of trust and how to properly evaluate it.

I have watched Nick and so far, he has done well. He is young and has his whole life waiting for him. He could have done what millenials have done and just tried to fit in and pretend to be a communist, but he did not. He nuked his entire future in favour of a fight that he barely has any hope of winning. I admire that, it is far more than I can say for my self. As far as trust, so far pretty good. Let's see how far he goes and let's nurture 10 000 more talents like him because this is absolutely critical to our people and our movement.

Basic risk management.