On “The Chris Matthews Show” on Jan. 23, Chris was asking the panel about the member of the tea party movement. Who are they?
David Brooks: “It used to be in this country that people with high school degrees lived the same kind of lives as people with college degrees. That’s no longer true. Divorce rates, attitudes toward society, attitudes toward government, it’s very different, college degree/non-college degree. … So I think they’re living in a different America. And they look at the people who are running them, most of whom are college degrees — Harvard law — on both sides and they say “That’s not me. That’s not my life. And they’re not listening to me.” … Tom Wolfe had this rule of ‘high school opposite’: Who do you vote for, in politics? Well, in high school you find out who your opposite is, and you vote against those bastards. And so, if you hate the football players, all through life you’re gonna vote against the football players. If you hate the art people, you vote against the art people.”