[WayneS]

... Americans’ lack of confidence in their leadership is so crippled that they are now “pre-revolutionary.

Our lack of confidence in our leadership is crippled? That doesn't make sense.

[maddog55]

Agree, take out “lack of” and it makes more sense but I got the gist of it. I’m not an English major which for writing is more or less an opinion.

[andy58-in-nh]

Our lack of confidence in our leadership is crippled? That doesn't make sense.

I think he meant to say that our "confidence" is crippled, and that would make sense. The reason people lack faith in their leaders is because those "leaders" won't leave them alone to live in peace and freedom. Instead of supporting our Constitution and promoting our nation's values, they choose to tax us abusively, spend our money wildly, feed the power of government obsessively - and then have the audacity to blame us for the results of what they are doing.

"Pre-revolutionary" is right.

[bcsco]

Our lack of confidence in our leadership is crippled? That doesn't make sense.

You're right, he has it backwards. It should read "Our confidence in our leadership...". It's like an "I could care less" remark...