This Epstein sideshow exposes elites' bad faith — and the ruin of our country

David Brooks, the conservative columnist who is beloved by liberals, wrote last month that the Democrats make too much of the Epstein story. He said they’re acting as conspiratorially as the Republicans.

Brooks said he was “especially startled” to see leading progressives characterizing all elites as part of “the Epstein class.” If he were a Democrat, he said, he’d be focused on “the truth”: “The elites didn’t betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn’t mean to harm you.”

Brooks went on to say...