Post about David Brooks?

[marybourg]

Now that I've seen and heard David Brooks on PBS Newshour, I'd like to go back to the thread someone started about him earlier. I didn't think to bookmark it and it hasn't been archived by Google yet. Can the OP or someone else steer me to it?

Brooks sounded just like us.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. He compared Drumpf to the highly idealized version of Reagan and found him wanting

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/the-politics-of-cowardice.html?_r=0

[NCTraveler]

2. Brooks is a conservative.

He isn't a foolish flamethrower. The segment with Shields and Brooks on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer was something I looked forward to. He sees things like they are, hasn't been happy with his party for some time, and is the exact person Bush was initially going for with his promotion of compassionate conservatism.

[struggle4progress]

3. IMO Brooks is a right-winger who regularly pretends to be a centrist

It's just part of his persona as a talking-head

[dalton99a]

4. Brooks calls Trump a coward. Trump calls Brooks the dumbest of them all.

That's about it.

[kwassa]

5. There are almost no conservative commentators that support Trump.

And some of their attacks on Trump are the most on point and the most cutting.

I read a great one by Michael Gerson the other day.

Jennifer Rubin has been brutal.

George Will left the Republican party over Trump. He has some great attacks on Trump.

and the Washington Post, which tries to print a variety of views on the op-ed page, said they have been unsuccessful in finding a conservative commentator that supports Trump.