David Brooks

Trump has ruptured our society from top to bottom.

And I think you just move on, you turn the page, and you offer something different.

After Nixon, you got something different in Carter.

After Carter, you got something different in Reagan.

After Reagan-Bush, you got something different in Clinton.

And people want to try something different.

Yeah, I mean, there's clearly a lot of weight behind your argument.

I mean, I think we all acknowledge that it was a big mistake not to punish any of the 2008 financial crisis architects.

That just struck people as a moral job undone.

So sometimes you do have to have truth and reconciliation with the emphasis on truth.

On the other hand, I think the big test for people in the years ahead is to separate Trump voters, working class voters from the cronies, from the Trump cronies.

I think that will happen, A, as people are realizing that the Trump cronies ride to power on the votes of the working class.

And the working class die much sooner.

They earn much less.

They're much more likely to get divorced and much more likely to say they have no friends.

So they really the needs of the working class are really something that needs to be addressed.

And Trump is not doing it.

And the job is to separate those working class voters from the cronies.

The Republican Party in our lifetime, in my view, is always going to be a working class party.

That's true of every right-wing party in the Western world.