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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
My name is David Brooks.
I'm a columnist at the New York Times.
About half the time I write about politics, and then the happier half of the time I write about everything else, like culture, sociology, neuroscience, emotions.
I write about politics because it really matters, but my heart's in the culture.
I think one of the things that's happening in our era is that politics is no longer organized.
Rich versus poor and ethnicity is becoming less important as a predictor of how you vote and how you think.
And now you'd have to say the chief divide in America is between those with college degrees and those with high school degrees.
The diploma dividend.
And Donald Trump has managed to build a multiracial working class majority around the interests of the working class and against the interests of the educated class.
Let me try to explain how we got to this point.
I would say for the last 40 years we've been living in the information age.
And during that age, both Republicans and Democrats, while disagreeing with each other on many things, shared a basic understanding of what American society was about.