David Brooks: “After all the campaigning and the money and the shouting, the electoral balance is still on a razor’s edge.'
A billboard in Worthington, Pa., Nov. 2, 2022. The Democrats should be trouncing Republicans, but an animosity fueled by a class divide has left the electoral balance on a razor’s edge, writes the New York Times columnist David Brooks.My big takeaway from this election season would be this: We’re about where we were. We entered this election season with a nearly evenly divided House and Senate in which the Democrats had a slight advantage.
What accounts for this? It’s the underlying structure of society. Americans are sorting themselves out by education into two roughly equal camps. As people without a college degree have flocked to the GOP, people with one have flocked to the Democrats. It doesn’t seem to be working. As Ruy Teixeira, Karlyn Bowman and Nate Moore noted in a survey of polling data for the American Enterprise Institute last month, “The gap between non-college and college whites continues to grow.” Democrats have reason to worry about losing working-class Hispanic voters in places like Nevada.
As I’ve shuttled between red and blue America over decades of reporting on American politics, I’ve seen social, cultural, moral and ideological rifts widen from cracks to chasms. But even that is not the real problem. America has always had vast cultural differences. Back in 2001, I wrote a long piece for The Atlantic comparing the deeply blue area of Montgomery County, Maryland, with the red area of Franklin County in south-central Pennsylvania.
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