Let’s Not Do This Again
David Brooks, New York Times | NOV. 8, 2016
David Brooks, New York Times | NOV. 8, 2016
If
I had to sum up the election of 2016 in one clause, I would say it has
been a sociological revolution, a moral warning and a political summons.
Sociologically,
this campaign has been an education in how societies come apart. The
Trump campaign has been like a flash flood that sweeps away the topsoil
and both reveals and widens the chasms, crevices and cracks below.
We
are a far more divided society than we realized. The educated and less
educated increasingly see the world and vote in different ways. So do
men and women, blacks and whites, natives and immigrants, young and old,
urban and rural.
We
like to think of democracy as a battle of ideas and a process of
individual deliberation, but this year demography has been destiny. The
campaigns have pushed us back into our tribal bunkers. Americans now
seem more clannish, and more incomprehensible to one another.
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