What the country is missing is old-fashioned followers

There are, of course, just as many leaders as there have always been. What the country is missing is old-fashioned followers. The generations that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century lost trust in every vestige of hierarchical authority, from the edicts of the Catholic bishops to the degrees of the Freemasons to the stature of federal representatives. There haven't been any new LBJs because the whole notion of leadership has changed - and the whole shape of democracy is changing

B. Bishop, The big sort (2008), 298-9