Conservative: The Experts’ ‘Competence’ Deficit The theme of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, “rebuilding trust,” acknowledges “that something has gone wrong,” notes Walter Russell Mead at The Wall Street Journal, and that’s a “good start.” But it “doesn’t go far enough.” Russian and Chinese attempts to steer American opinion need addressing, yet “people aren’t losing trust in their leaders because disinformation has muddled their brains,” but because “they sense that the establishment’s approach to the chief problems of the day isn’t working. This isn’t, at its core, a crisis of trust” but of “competence.” “ ‘The emperor...