David Brooks from New York Times admitted that the “elite” have used selfish strategies to achieve a sense of moral superiority over trump supporters.
“I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys,” Brooks wrote.
“Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out,” referring to the liberal elite.
He explained that where media was once a working-class career, ivy league and other “elite” college grads now dominate journalism.
This “educated class” now views themselves as the “forces of progress and enlightenment.”
Brooks said, “When I began my journalism career in Chicago in the 1980s, there were still some old crusty working-class guys around the newsroom. Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession.”
“Armed with all kinds of economic, cultural and political power, we support policies that help ourselves,” Brooks wrote of the “educated class.”
“We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation,” he added.
Brooks noted that “It’s easy to understand why people in less-educated classes would conclude that they are under economic, political, cultural and moral assault — and why they’ve rallied around Trump as their best warrior against the educated class.”
Reporting from Fox News:
"I give David Brooks a lot of credit here. There is self-awareness here, and a willingness to admit that perhaps his position in life wasn't entirely due to his talent and intellect. He's so close," longtime radio journalist Celeste Headlee wrote Thursday. "Holy cow this David Brooks column is a barn-burner!" National Pulse junior editor Will Upton tweeted. "I mean… he’s finally figured it out!" Upton shared screenshots of Brooks' claims that "Trump understood that there was great demand for a leader who would stick his thumb in" the eyes of the liberal elite "on a daily basis and reject the whole epistemic regime that we rode in on."
