DavidBrooks

The Great Orange Shitgibbet ™ has always operated on the “divide and conquer” principle. He has said he loves chaos, but what that also means is that he loves division, so that people get so busy fighting each other they are unable to unite against him. That strategy worked to...

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  • May 1, 2020

Laura Clawson is doing an excellent job of covering how bad the ABC moderators of this latest Demcoratic “debate” are performing.  And you don’t have to be a progressive to see how awful the “There Will Be Blood!” inducing questions that sellouts like George Stephanopolous ask.  He’s a shining example...

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  • February 8, 2020

David Brooks latest experiment in detoxified masculinity is called: Why Trump Voters Stick With Him: An imagined conversation with Flyover Man. Unfortunately, like most of his columns, the vague generalizations of non-coastal populations resembles a sophomoric version of the NY Times’s attempts to sample Trump voters’ opinions. This time the caricature of...

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  • October 4, 2019

In the continuing saga of concern trolling from Never Trumpers and Trump supporters about the Democrats running for president, I would like to highlight one of those too far left ideas that virtually all Democratic presidential candidates endorse:  raising the minimum wage.  Democrats want to raise the minimum wage to...

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  • July 1, 2019

I got time to kill, so I have been watching and reading the responses from the typical media establishment members and pundits to last night’s Democratic presidential debate.  And spoiler alert:  there is panic about Joe Biden’s performance.   First up, there is the guy who helped Trump get to the...

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  • June 28, 2019

David Brooks states the issue properly: Given the financial crisis, widening inequality, the unpopularity of the right’s stances on social issues and immigration, you would have thought that progressive parties would be cruising from win to win. But, instead, right-leaning parties are doing well. In the United States, Republicans control...

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  • May 13, 2015