New York Times columnist David Brooks is theoretically supposed to be PBS News Hour’s conservative half of its weekly Friday news recap with Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart. However, he constantly fails to live up to this arrangement, and this Friday was no exception, as he alleged that people all over the world will die because the Trump administration simply wants to “break things.”
Host Geoff Bennett set the table for Brooks by reading part of one of his recent columns, “And you wrote about this your — past week in a column, where you said that it's ‘the working-class communities that will continue to languish because Trump ignores their main challenges and focuses instead on culture war distractions,’ that people who voted for change want to see that change.”
Brooks began by trying to contrast the mindset of Trump voters with the Trump administration, “Yes, the people who voted for Trump had a good reason to. Like, high school-educated people die eight years sooner than college-educated people. High school-educated people, their kids, by sixth grade are four grade levels below college-educated people. They're much more likely to say they're lonely. They're much more likely to live in devastated communities without social capital. So, if you had a populist government, they would have policies to address these serious issues.”
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