No longer the traditional arguments we've had over big or small government, but from bottom to top, rallying the people at the bottom against the people at the top, and a very bloody-minded view of the world, very zero-sum. ![]() You know, it struck me as very much a realigning type of speech, a speech that's really going to try to realign our politics. SIEGEL: David Brooks, a promising start to a new presidency?īROOKS: A daring start. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. To those he calls the forgotten Americans, Trump made this promise. SIEGEL: Let's talk first about one of the big themes in Donald Trump's inaugural address, one that we heard throughout the past year, the idea that American cities and manufacturing have declined terribly, dragging down middle America. Hi, David.ĭAVID BROOKS, BYLINE: Good to be with you. ![]() SIEGEL: And joining us this week from Arlington, Va., just across the Potomac, David Brooks of The New York Times. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution. And I'm Robert Siegel with our regular Friday political observers - columnists E.J.
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