David Brooks Quotes
Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.
Brooks, David. PBS NewsHour, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2016.
When the Republican Party was first founded, they had a disproportionate share of educated people. This was generally true until the Great Depression and the Hoover administration. After the Republican “Southern Strategy in the 1960s, the “solid” Democratic South became Republicans and drove the party far to the right. The party leaders began to scorn intellectuals and scientists. By 2000, a large majority of the most educated Americans were voting Democratic rejecting the extremism of the then Republican Party.
Donald Trump was at that time well ahead in the polls in his quest for the Republican Presidential nomination. Most Republican leaders and most journalists and pundits did not understand his popularity and many carefully analyzed his speeches and statements. Gerson suggested that this was fruitless.
Those who did were ostracized by Delay (who was then the Republican Majority Leader) and some other leading Republicans. His extreme and sometimes illegal partisan tactics got him into criminal difficulty and he was a major part of the great Republican Scandal of 2005-2006. He then was convicted of criminal activity for his extreme and illegal political activities.
He meant gender, not the frequency of sexual activity.
David Brooks is a conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek, and The Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour.
