David Brooks

That's Steve Miller, who went to Duke.

That's Pete Hegseth, who went to Princeton.

That's J.D.

Vance, who went to Yale Law.

You can go down the list.

It's Elon Musk and Donald Trump went to Penn.

And so these are not pro-conservative.

These are oppositional nihilists who hate the liberal establishment.

And I found it easy when I was saying college to be more conservative than my professors, but still have reverence for their learning.

But these people do not have reverence for learning.

They just want to offend the bourgeoisie.

And so that's what it's become.

And then they've produced spawn of young people who just think that's cool, that's edgy.

And of course, you have to up the dosage when you're giving people edgy nihilism.

It just keeps us to get worse and worse and worse.

And as Richard Weaver, a philosopher from the 1950s said, the problem with the younger generation is they haven't read the minutes to the last meeting.

So you get a group of people who, when they see fascistic behavior, don't understand where that eventually leads.

I think it got attached, and I'll tell my story.

I think what happened was neoconservatives, as I said, really believe in the nature of a regime.

want america to stand for certain values and they're appalled by regimes that stand for evil values and the soviet union was like that and saddam hussein's iraq was like that so they wanted to they said if you have a regime that is internally and domestically poisonous and oppressive it will be dangerous to the world and so the argument was and i would say in my life in the 90s