David Brooks

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.

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.