New York Times columnist David Brooks has been writing of late about how we should all just get along. In two August opinion pieces, he places the onus on the "highly educated elite" to take more responsibility in forming Abraham Lincoln's more perfect union.
This sort of appeal has been made for a number of years now. As many on the right turned away from public health measures in a pandemic and then determined to take down our democracy, those on the left were asked why they couldn't fall in line and be … nicer.
