Today on my way to Philadelphia the SEPTA regional train was full of American citizens on their way to do citizenship work. Citizens looked cheerful. Citizens were looking at each other’s eyes. Citizens were reading each other’s creative signs. It was a rare but refreshing sense of trust in the air. These weak but emerging networks of trust (horizontal by nature), if nourished, can make authoritarianism impossible. It is as if American citizens have for once taken notes from the Ukrainians, who are ready to rescind their atomizing and isolating egos in favor of networks of citizenship.