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David Brooks in the NY Times

You’d think that in this and every election, the Republicans would want to continue this tradition [of helping "young striver[s] and creat[ing] an economy where people like [that] could rise and succeed"]. You’d think that they’d start every election by putting themselves at the kitchen tables of middle-class families with ambitious kids. Their first questions would be: What are the barriers to their mobility? What concrete help do these people need to realize their dreams? Yet at the Republican economic debate in Michigan this week, there was no talk of that. ... [T]here was almost nothing that touched concretely on the lives of the ambitious working-class parents who are the backbone of the G.O.P.

Mr. Brooks' editors seem to have mistyped his post. Permit me to edit for accuracy:

Yet at the Republican economic debate in Michigan this week, there was no talk of that. ... [T]here was almost nothing that touched concretely on the lives of the ambitious working-class parents who are the backbone of the G.O.P. whom the GOP has endlessly gulled into believing that it gives a damn about them instead of the rich and super-rich.

Glad to help, David.