David Brooks

What used to be the bankers party is now a working class party.

And it is a great achievement to become a multi-racial working class party if the Republicans can pull it off.

And so we're not going to go back to the Republican party that you and I knew in 1990.

It's going to be a working class party.

Yeah, I mean, there are obviously a lot of Trump billionaires floating around out there.

But if you look at the upper middle educated sectors of our society, whether it's Palo Alto, Bethesda, Maryland, Westchester County, New York, Boston, those are all Democratic areas.

And to me, the single most the best predictor of voting pattern is no longer income.

It basically is not a predictor of voting patterns anymore.

It's education levels.

And Democrats are winning over the highly educated former Republican suburbs, and Republicans are winning over the less educated working class in rural areas.

And I guess I use that word working class a little loosely.

I really mean education levels.

And it's simply that's the divide, not only in this country, but across Western Europe.

And why is it the divide?

Because the information engaged economy rewards education with money.

And a lot of people look around their societies, whether it's here in Hungary or in England

in France, and they see the 20% most educated people living in extremely affluent lifestyles, sending their kids to the same schools, replicating a caste system based upon education and inherited privilege.

And by the way, ruling working class and conservative voices out of the media and out of college campuses.

And if you tell people that one top 20% is going to rig the game generation after generation, they're going to flip the table.

And that's why populism is not only an American thing.