I once saw an interview with David Brooks where I didn’t know who he was, and I couldn’t believe how stupid he was. Then I saw that it was David Brooks, and I was like, oh yeah, of course. He was talking with fucking Aaron Sorkin and would not shut the fuck up about how he and his children went to the most elite schools. He also asked Sorkin if he drank when he wrote and Sorkin looked at him like, is this a trick question? But Brooks legitimately did not know that a bag of cocaine had essentially written The West Wing.

I read the article and thought it was basically a liberal struggling to do class analysis without Marxism. The educated elites in this country are the labor aristocracy, who overwhelmingly support the democrats, while the petite bourgeoisie overwhelmingly supports Trump. But because liberals don’t know that class is determined by your relationship to the means of production, they think that income determines class (labor aristocrats can make more money than the petite bourgeoisie), and that Trump supporters are workers. (Some are—highly educated tech bros or aging white male union workers can indeed support Trump. Small business owners can also support Biden.) The result here is just a worthless mess, with Brooks humblebragging about an elite pedigree that only proves that an ivy league education is no guarantee of even minimal intelligence.