I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.
David BrooksEven in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?
David BrooksThe school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.
David BrooksPolitics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.
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