The passage of a few days to allow for more mature reflection after Election Day has not affected Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Capehart attributed Donald Trump’s victory to “racism and sexism” and a list of other horribles that the country refuses to acknowledge.
After New York Times columnist David Brooks observed that out-of-touch college-educated elites were to blame, host Geoff Bennett asked Capehart if he agreed, “Jonathan, do you see that same kind of realignment, that the new fault line in our politics is education level?”
Capehart didn’t disagree, but he would much rather avoid any introspection. “It’s one of them. I mean, I don’t disagree with anything that David just said in terms of his analysis, but we cannot ignore what was being discussed in the last segment there with…
