I'm Helene Cooper.
I cover the US military for the New York Times.
So I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot outside the Pentagon.
I had a cubicle with a desk inside the building for years,
but the Trump administration has taken that away.
People in power have always made it difficult for journalists.
It hasn't stopped us in the past.
It's not going to stop us now.
I will keep working to get you the facts.
This work doesn't happen without subscribers to The New York Times.
This is The Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm David Leonhardt, the director of The New York Times editorial board.
Today,
we're going to talk about what I think is the single most important trend in American politics.
the class inversion.
For a long time, the Democrats were the party of the working class,
and Republicans were the party of educated professionals.
But that's just not true anymore.