On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks characterized the 2016 presidential election as a “campaign of hate.” And one where “everyone’s dividing based on demographic categories. And, sometimes, you get the sense that the campaign barely matters. People are just going with their gene pool and whatever it is.” Brooks said, “I think she’s the favorite. I — what’s — I have a sense that it would have happened anyway, and that, at the end of the day, people were going to come home to who they were. And what’s depressed me, frankly, most about this race, is, we went into this country a divided nation, and now the chasms are just solidified. So, divided along race, divided along gender, urban/rural, college-educated/non-college-educated. We can go down the list. And, basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Trump. It doesn’t matter what the guy does. And college-educated, going to Clinton. I mean, everyone’s dividing based on demographic categories. And, sometimes, you get the sense that the campaign barely matters. People are just going with their gene pool and whatever it is. And that is one of the more depressing aspects of this race for me.”