When you make money equal to speech then greed is good. Thank you conservatives for that gem from the conservatives on the Supreme Court. That has done as much damage to the nation as gutting the Voting Rights Act. BTW, Brooks is referring to some time when most white folks agreed on citizenship. The rest of us were never included in that idyllic civic cooperation he pines for. He misses the white privilege to ignore the bad things in this country, like white racism. Trump has made it okay for the white racists to rejoin public and political life. Of course, they were always there in the shadows.