For more on Donald Trump's re-election, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, Associate Editor for the Washington Post.

Welcome back.

Jeff, for to be here.

So we've had a few days to assess the implications of Donald Trump's sweeping victory, winning the electoral college and the popular vote.

The first time a Republican has done that in some two decades. David, what does his really decisive victory reveal to you about this country?

You know, I think since 2016, we've entered a new political era, and the period between

1980 and 2016 was the information age. And we decided that America was moving to a post-industrial economy led by college grads.

So so many of our policies were oriented to favor college grads.

Education policy, let's get everybody in a four-year colleges.

Immigration policy. Let's provide college grads with cheap labor,

even though the less skilled people are going to face some labor competition. Trade policy. Let's provide college grads with cheap labor, even though the less skilled

people are going to face some labor competition. Trade policy. We allowed manufacturing jobs

to go overseas while service jobs were not threatened in that way. Geographic policy. We had

a laissez-faire attitude where talent congregated in Austin and Dallas and Washington and Boston,

and we didn't really worry about all those places left behind.

And so to me, we had a policy that favored college grads and disfavored everybody else.

And basically in 2016 and emphatically last Tuesday, a lot of people said, I've had enough.

We need to change.

Jonathan, do you see that same kind of realignment that the new fault line in our politics is

education level?

It's one of them.

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