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3. David Brooks
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 05:53 PM
Jul 14

"We, [the educated elite class] rigged the game so we succeeded and everybody else failed.

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We ended up creating a caste system, even though we pretend to be egalitarian.

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Trump
Musk
JD Vance
Peter Hegeseth
Stephen Miller
Laura Ingraham
They represent the educated elite.


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They are not pro-conservative, they are anti-left. They don't have a positive conservative vision for society, they just want to destroy the institutions that the left now dominates. And this means, in the first place, that they are astoundingly incompetent.

If what is right & wrong depends on what each individual feels then we are outside the bounds of civilization (Walter Lippmann, 1955).

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