[Zhang Fei]

That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks's mind. "I remember distinctly an image of-we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant," Brooks says, "and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president." In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama's The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was "Run, Barack, Run."

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Brooks has swallowed the left’s complete “Ministry of Truth” perspective on the world. Up is down. Good is evil. Evil is good. Obeying God is satanic. Love for the Law of God is evil and worse, unkind. Etc.

I wonder if he thinks the rules of English and proper publication are cruel to the disenfranchised illiterates. Or if he thinks the traffic laws are unmerciful to the speed-challenged. Or maybe he thinks the laws of nature with its physical consequences are too brutal and unfair to couch potatoes, drunkards, drug addicts, Twinkie-holics, etc. Or maybe gravity is unfair to those who like to jump off buildings. Anyway, how dare anyone warn anyone that jumping off tall buildings is harmful.

Maybe those are lame examples, but the point is, right and wrong are defined in many areas, not just moral ones. Good and bad, right and wrong, have been contemplated and defined by all generations of people. Brooks is condemning Cruz while doing the exact same thing himself. He is just defining them in reverse. Good is now evil. Evil is now good. Cruz, to Brooks, is satanic.