David Brooks: This is why we need to spend $4 trillion

Biden was elected to address the poisonous combination of elite insularity and vicious populist resentment.

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) A worker on the top floor of New York's Freedom Tower, July 18, 2011. "More and more I hear people accepting the idea that America is not as energetic and youthful as it used to be," writes The New York Times columnist David Brooks.

David Brooks: This is why we need to spend $4 trillion

Biden was elected to address the poisonous combination of elite insularity and vicious populist resentment.

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