The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, oversecularized denizens of the coasts.
What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole. The liberals had coastal condescension, so the conservatives developed their own anti-elitism, with mirror-image categories and mirror-image resentments, but with the same corrosive effect.
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Once conservatives admired Churchill and Lincoln above all — men from wildly different backgrounds who prepared for leadership through constant reading, historical understanding and sophisticated thinking. Now those attributes bow down before the common touch.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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Ho hum. This has already been posted. You owe JJ, or AI, some drink or blah blah blah....
Brooks channels you.
Brooks is showing his UChicago roots of overread mediocrity.
Correction, JJ, it is "over-Red"
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