Voters too smart to buy into class struggle, writes David Brooks
(NEWSER) - Populism is back in vogue but politicians scrambling to bash the elite forget that it's almost always been a losing strategy, warns David Brooks. Politicians—whether they're Democrats taking potshots at Wall Street or Sarah Palin blasting the cultural elite—should remember that America was built by people like Alexander Hamilton who "rejected the idea that the national economy is fundamentally divided along class lines," Brooks notes in the New York Times. More»
