David Brook, November 5, 2014:
The big Republican accomplishment is that they have detoxified their brand. Four years ago they seemed scary and extreme to a lot of people. They no longer seem that way. The wins in purple states like North Carolina, Iowa and Colorado are clear indications that the party can at least gain a hearing among swing voters. And if the G.O.P. presents a reasonable candidate (and this year’s crop was very good), then Republicans can win anywhere. I think we’ve left the Sarah Palin phase and entered the Tom Cotton phase.
David Brook, October 20, 2023:
And so now we have two [Republican] blocks that are really irreconcilable, almost, with each other, with as much chaos and madness and hatred in public as it's possible to imagine. And then the underlying cause is that you have a rising group of Republicans who have no loyalty to the institutions and its norms.
Because of his insider Beltway pundit status, David Brooks is currently enjoying the kind of book promotional tour that 99.9% of all other authors wouldn't dare to dream of.
This is the title of his book:
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The jokes, they write themselves.
Burn The Lifeboats
Make S'Mores On The Coals
5 comments:
I notice that there's nothing about seeing oneself deeply. Then again, that David Brooks, if he were ever to see himself deeply, would realize that there is essentially nothing there, certainly nothing that might accidentally be worthwhile, and hopefully find the motivation to put himself out of our misery at last, is an immutable fact I am stating for the record. It does not mean joking is what is taking place here.
The new improved blanket.
Take a normal blanket. Cut off one foot from the bottom. Sew it on to the top of the blanket.
Hocus Pocus..... We now have a new and improved blanket that can be sold anywhere. All we need now is a NYT column writer to write a selling point. You know, like David Brooks. Yes, he will do nicely. Permanent GOP majorities for ever.
I notably enjoyed and took to heart, David Brooks conclusion that the GOP is finally gotten past the not so pleasant Sarah Palin era.
Leaving that era far behind for the public Bobert hand jobs, the Marge Greene's Jewish space lasers arson-ing the California forests, The Hunter Boden lap top proof is almost here Chairman Comer and the guy who failed upwards, by failing his bar exam to be elevated to the Judiciary committee chairman. making up for failing the Bar exam by appearing on FOX and mothing words non stop. There is the David Duke with out the luggage.
Most of all, David Brooks must be so proud of the GOP to get past McCarthy. Just like when the House GOP got past the child sex abuser , (Hastert) got past only after when he went to prison.
Got to say, That David Brooks is a real convincer. He should be a used car salesman or one of them door to door salesmen.
Just not a Sham-wow salesman.
I, for one, like the new singular David Brook!
david brooks defined himself when he, apocryphally, snatched the money from the burning barrel his parents were feeding with their money...he's just a slut who likes money.
that defines his entire career....to be fair there are others who support his whoreish-ness...ayn rand, wm f buckley, and donald trump...the changes that mr. brooks shows during his evolution are simply differing ways of expressing his theme...
to forget WHY is david brooks is to forget what is david brooks.
He's not wrong about it becoming the Tom Cotton party. A self-important group of fascists that do a lot of symbolic BS, without a legitimate bone in their bodies.
But we don't get column-inches at the NY Times and get overpaid from oligarchs to give vapid speeches.
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