This is a theme that Brooks has written and spoken about before.
On the PBS broadcast on 2016 election night he said much the same thing.
He still goes thru flattering his audience, and yes he says Trump is, of course, bad.
He notes that GDP is concentrated in a small number of urban Democrat counties. But I think he is coming to grips with elite ioncompetence, elite decline.
When the cluster munitions decision was made. Brooks noted that DoD said they couldn’t currently produce the ammunition needed. And Brooks was asking “how did that happen?”
Thanks for the additional, Reverend!