David Brooks

And it shifted again in the 80s with the Reagan and all that.

And so when I think about what's about to happen in the 2028 election, I think America's gonna say, enough.

I don't care if you like Trump or don't like Trump, but this walk through carnage and contention and bitterness and corruption, enough.

We want the exact opposite.

So I think Gavin Newsom is being an idiot for being Trump-like on the left.

I think what America is going to hunger for is not only a policy opposite of Trump, but the moral opposite of Trump, and the social opposite of Trump, and the emotional opposite of Trump.

I don't know if it's Buttigieg, I don't know if it's Cory Booker, but Cory Booker exemplifies the upbeat, positive, loving spirituality that I think is the opposite.

I don't live in my home city of New York.

If I did, I would vote against Warren Montgomery all day.

because I disagree with him on every issue.

But I really have warm feelings toward the guy, because he smiles when he talks.

He's having a good time.

He's an upbeat kind of guy.

And that's the emotional tone that will be opposite of a guy like Trump, who rarely smiles,

unless it's for a fake smile and never laughs because he can't trust himself to have a spontaneous emotion.

So I think the cultural shift is going to be head spinning in 2018.

Well, it's so easy.

We all know that we shouldn't write to the ratings.

Everybody in media these days knows how many page views.

It's very easy to find out how many people watch the podcast.