Oh No, David Brooks Just Had Another Revelation

[n2doc]

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE


A note on the stationery from the Young Fogies Club was slipped under the door this morning. It was short, and it appeared to have been written in a hurry by Moral Hazard, the Irish setter owned for photo op purposes by New York Times columnist David Brooks.

Pierce: Master's gone around the bend. Going out to the fire escape to lick my balls until this passes.

Sincerely, M.H.

Attached was a column from Friday's Times. It began:

This is a wonderful moment to be a conservative. For decades now the Republican Party has been groaning under the Reagan orthodoxy, which was right for the 1980s but has become increasingly obsolete. The Reagan worldview was based on the idea that a rising economic tide would lift all boats. But that's clearly no longer true.

Under the bus, Dutch! I've got speaking fees to consider!

Yes, that's David Brooks, tossing Ronald Reagan onto the ash-heap of history. And, yes, I know that the Reagan Orthodoxy was all economic moonshine right from jump, but watching David Brooks panic over the locoweed that long has been a key ingredient in his lifelong ideological Maypo remains a joy to behold.
more

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a43327/david-brooks-reagan-revelation/

[rjsquirrel]

1. He is

such a pathetic little toad.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. to say the least! But he is so emblematic of all that is wrong with the pundit class

[Sanity Claws]

2. That's clearly NO LONGER true

No, Mr. Brooks, you are wrong again. It was never true. It was propaganda for the elites when it was first uttered and continues to be nothing but propaganda sold to the masses.

[malthaussen]

4. It's an interpretive thing...

... what Mr Brooks means to say is that, "clearly, the con no longer works." It all depends on whether he believed it or not.

-- Mal

[malaise]

3. So he concedes that Reagan and Thatcher's New World Order

of neo-liberalism, racism and imperialism has failed.

About fucking time.

[AxionExcel]

6. !

[malaise]

8. We know and they know but most of them still spew

neo-liberal bullshit

[mountain grammy]

7. "the Young Fogies Club"

Under the bus, Dutch! I've got speaking fees to consider!

Nobody, absolutely, nobody can do this like Charlie Pierce. A joy from beginning to end. Thanks for posting.

[Johonny]

9. It was right to ignore AIDS, in the 80s. It was right to arm Al-qaeda, inthe 80s

It was right to give Iraq chemical weapons, in the 80s. It was right to sell weapons to Iran against the ban set by congress, in the 80s. It was right to run up the national debt on war spending for a fantasy war against the USSR that never came, in the 80s. It was right to cut income taxes on the wealthy and raise payroll taxes on the working class, in the 80s, it was right to engage in a war on drugs, in the 80s, it was right to end the fairness doctrine to let no ones voice but idiots be heard, in the 80s....

Reagan wasn't even good in the 1980s. So F David Brooks as per usual.

[zentrum]

10. Well done, Charles Pierce!

But poor David. The failure of trickle down, the birth of Trump and Cruz and all of them, are David's very own babies.

[shadowmayor]

11. Why is he on NPR?

Brooks can go lick a turd!

[lastlib]

14. And he doesn't even have to leave his chair to do it!

(but I wish he would)

[closeupready]

12. He was on NewsHour last night, talking down the success of Trump

in winning the GOP nomination, and I just couldn't believe anyone viewing that took him seriously. Just a clown.

[Warpy]

15. Dawn breaks over Marblehead

but David, it wasn't true in 1980, either.

The only tide that lifts all boats starts with the dinghies, rowboats, innertubes, and anything else small that floats, especially the people at the bottom who make this country function but are barely treading water.

Prosperity comes from higher wages for all of us, not from rich men with platinum toilet seats.

[ananda]

16. Just another cuckoo in cloudcuckooland.

Sad

[Rex]

17. Garbage pundits are scrambling for their once easy paychecks.

Brooks is Dunn...stick a fork in em!

[Marr]

18. It was 'right in the 80's' but not now, huh? So what happened? Arithmetic changed?

More like the Republican establishment has realized it can't get the rubes' votes with a little casual bigotry and then use their actual power to service their 1%er economic scam anymore. I wouldn't expect someone like Brooks to admit it was bullshit all along, of course, but still-- I'd love to hear his bullshit explanation for why 1+1 used to equal 4, but no longer does.

[annabanana]

19. "lifelong ideological Maypo"