David Brooks

And when I opened my office door, there were 3,600 people.

All the employees of the plant had formed a double line between his office, through the plant, across the parking lot to his car door.

And he walked through that line as they all applauded him to show him what a good guy he was.

And he says to me,

That was 35 years ago.

Every job I've had since then has been worse with less pay, less reliable hours.

I can barely go outside because my mother-in-law lives with us.

She's 99.

She's really sick.

And so he said, that guy Trump may be a jackass, but I need a change.

And so I don't agree with him, but I get where he's coming from.

And so my one-liner about Trump, he's the wrong answer to the right question.

But that doesn't totally absolve the situation because then you ask, well, how did 77 million Americans take a look at Trump and see nothing morally objectionable or at least nothing morally disqualifying?

And I think that is a very deep story.

And I go to a philosopher in Malister McIntyre who died about a year ago within the last year.

And he basically said that

up until a certain time in world history, people had, their morality was shaped by their social roles.

I'm a tailor, I'm a soldier, I'm a teacher, I'm a whatever, a farmer.

And my morality, the way I behave myself, the standards of decency are defined by how well I fulfill my moral role.

And he says, when we took all that away and we privatized morality, we said it's up to each person to come up with their own morality.