2024-03-20
6 分钟David Brooks: My name is David Brooks,
and I'm a columnist for 'The New York Times.'
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I've just finished a book tour,
so I've been on the road for five months.
I've probably been to 35 or 40 states.
And I would say the predominant emotion I have heard
when I ask people about politics during my travels is exhaustion —
a sense of fatigue, a sense of discouragement, a sense of passivity,
and especially among Democrats, a pessimism about the election.
I think people are shocked and discouraged that Donald Trump, right now,
has a pretty significant lead over Joe Biden in the presidential election.
We're in the middle of the global surge in populism.
Populism is belief that there's a conflict, a class conflict.
And the conflict is between the real Americans and the globalized elites.
And in America, it's mostly measured by levels of education.
So it's people with a high school degree who tend to be working class,
who feel they are being oppressed,
looked down upon, and condescended to,
and morally scorned