Brooks: "that we have a college educated elite that has found ingenious ways to make everybody else feel invisible, that has managed to transfer wealth upward to itself, that crashes the hammer of political correctness down on anybody who does not have faculty lounge views."
This is not one of David Brook's better efforts.  Brooks is floundering.  He has contempt for Trump but wants to find some way to blame liberals for the problem.
Fact is, most of the so-called "faculty lounge views" he's railing against here are values of human equality and protection of the Earth which he'd be happy to support against the Know-Nothings. Given the extent to which right-wing populist views are prevalent in our culture it's hard to see, except in scattered academic settings, the "hammer of political correctness" is crushing all opposing thought.
The true elite causing the alienation is not the college educated but rather the uber-wealthy who control much of the economy and the media.