The Moral Schizophrenia Of David Brooks
Four days ago, Mr. David Brooks had a very public meltdown in the pages of the New York Times. Four days later, Mr. Brooks has the nerve to declare that Bernie Sanders is not a serious candidate for president.
Four days ago, Mr. David Brooks had a very public meltdown in the pages of the New York Times, lamenting that his Republicans party had become a shithole of incompetent, bombastic monsters and "masters at destruction" who "can’t even acknowledge democracy’s legitimacy" and for whom:
Compromise is corruption. Inconvenient facts are ignored. Countrymen with different views are regarded as aliens. Political identity became a sort of ethnic identity, and any compromise was regarded as a blood betrayal.
And now, four days later, Mr. Brooks has the fucking nerve to declare that Bernie Sanders is not a serious candidate for president because he refuses to embrace the Republican's latest Rovian ratfuckery: whanging away at Hillary Clinton over the damn emails.
Using Fox News' own perennially favorite phrase for cowardly Liberals -- "raising the white flag of surrender" -- Mr. Brooks bashes Senator Sanders for not morphing into Trey Gowdy in order to Atwater his way to victory.
The fun begins at around the 3:20 mark:
Brooks: The one advantage the Republicans have is that a bunch of them want to be president. On the Democratic side it appears only one person wants to president, and that's Hillary Clinton.
Crosstalk
Moderator: There's going to be a lot of Bernie Sanders who are going to disagree.
Brooks: Then why doesn't he challenge her? His one... just as a matter of political tactics, uh, he really has only one avenue, uh, to beat her and I don't think it's going to be ideological. People are going to have to decide she's not trustworthy enough, she's not viable enough, on character and personal grounds to be elected. And when he takes the email off the table, uh, he's really taking away that lever. And, so, I think he basically raised the white flag of surrender and really strongly and very powerfully diminished any chance he might have had of getting the nomination.
Later that same day on PBS we find Mr. Brooks doing what he does best: redacting inconvenient parts of his own immediate past in order to further advance a fundamentally terrible idea: