The five points, according to Brooks, were as follows:

"He de-ideologized the election. He made the campaign mostly about dealing with COVID-19. That’s a practical problem, not an ideological one. Conservatives and moderates didn’t have to renounce their whole philosophy to vote for him. They just said they’re voting for the person who can take care of this."

"He’s done a good job reaching out to white evangelicals. Right now, many of them think he’s a godless socialist who will usher in a reign of anti-religious terror. In his campaign, he’s done a pretty good job reaching out to those voters. His campaign has run ads on Christian radio and reached out aggressively to evangelical leaders. If he can allay their cultural fears (by making it clear he will not shut down Christian charitable groups) and win them over with working-class economic policies, he can create a long-term governing majority".

"He’s separated politics from the culture war. Over the past generation, culture war issues have increasingly swallowed our politics. Trump had put this process into overdrive. He barely talks about policies. Instead, his every subject is really about why “our” identity group is better than “their” identity group".

"Biden has scrambled the upscale/downscale dynamic. The most important fissure in our politics is education levels. The Democratic Party’s greatest long-term challenge is that it might become the party of the highly credentialed college-educated class and let some future Republican rally a multiracial working-class coalition. Even Trump is now making surprising gains among Latino and Black men".

"Biden has avoided the stupid binaries about race. Trump went to Mount Rushmore and made a speech essentially saying you can either believe in systemic racism or you can love America. Biden went to Gettysburg and argued that you can “honestly face systemic racism” and love America. He argued that you can believe in fighting racism and believe in law and order. His worldview is based on universal categories — the things we share — not identitarian ones — the ways we supposedly can’t understand each other across difference".

I'm quite certain that each of you will "discredit" them to Trump supporter's satisfaction. I find it amazing that you believe yourselves capable of discrediting them, yet previously had trouble distinguishing what Mr. Brooks five main points were...until I pointed them out for ya' Simply amazing.

I will simply say that I'm damn proud and glad that Biden won...and, that the election followed a familiar pattern: The GOP dominated the open geographic spaces most void of population, and the democrats dominated the areas where people live in greater density....the ol' demographic battle of rural vs. city.

I do not doubt that, by any measure, Biden won. ...and that Trump, by nature, is his own worst enemy.

I suggest you refrain from childish/foolish comments.

Still, I will take your comments to mean that when I disagree with you, I am a hopeless case...just as you would be the same when disagreeing with me As, over the years, we may have agreed more than disagreed...when in agreement, we're both good to go, right

Hey Slat I gave you props for delving through Brooks’s pontification. And you chirp back that it was a chore. I’ll start with the poetic license you took in point #5. Biden KNELT with BLM (along with Schumer and Pelosi) and paid homage to that militant socialist movement. And you feed us the patriotism of Mt Rushmore in a negative light to contrast Biden’s acquiescence to the mob as enlightened tolerance. No sir. Biden’s handlers steer him toward the race card at every turn. Shame on you for restricting your innate intellect to the propaganda machine of the left.

I will simply say that I'm damn proud and glad that Biden won...and, that the election followed a familiar pattern: The GOP dominated the open geographic spaces most void of population, and the democrats dominated the areas where people live in greater density....the ol' demographic battle of rural vs. city.

I do not doubt that, by any measure, Biden won. ...and that Trump, by nature, is his own worst enemy.

Why worry now, Smedley, as I'ma guessing Mr. Brooks has never really been on your itinerary Yet, let's just say that he's on the same planet as 81 million+ American voters. In any event...relax, as reading another's view or opinion doesn't have to be taken to heart. We all, in the end, make our choices