<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Trust on Huffman Writes</title><link>https://www.huffmanwrites.org/tags/trust/</link><description>Recent content in Trust on Huffman Writes</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:48:00 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.huffmanwrites.org/tags/trust/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Case for Honest Leaders: Why the Republic Cannot Afford a Liar in Chief</title><link>https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-case-for-honest-leaders/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:48:00 -0500</pubDate><guid>https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-case-for-honest-leaders/</guid><description>The Founders built a government that could survive knaves. They did not build one that could survive a leader whose strategy is to make the difference between truth and falsehood undiscoverable. Honesty is not a moral preference; it is the republic&amp;#39;s cheapest infrastructure.</description></item></channel></rss>