In Highest Comedy, David Brooks, Arch-Priest of "Elites," Calls for "Civic Uprising"

https://www.racket.news/ ^ | Apr 21, 2025 | Matt Taibbi

[bitt]

Yuppies of the world, unite!

New York Times columnist David Brooks, calling for a “mass civic uprising” against Donald Trump:

"We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place… [that] this is not just defending the establishment; it’s moving somewhere new."

You don’t say!

It’s hard to convey the scale of the comedy involved in this article, which received a fair amount of attention. David Brooks in 2000 wrote Bobos in Paradise, a seminal work of aristocratic self-congratulation declaring the epoch of the “Bourgeois Bohemian,” or bobo. “All societies have elites, and our educated elite is a lot more enlightened than some of the other elites,” Brooks quipped. The bobo was a delicious confection in which “You got your countercultural sixties in my high-achieving eighties!” The resulting admixture was part rebel, part establishment pillar whose mere presence would radiate fabulousness. “Wherever we educated elites settle,” Brooks wrote, “we make life more interesting, diverse, and edifying.”

The book was a tribute to the superior looks, taste, and romantic strategies of America’s elites, who’d not only won the Cold War but conquered the problem of power itself, by being so chill and amazing that no one would ever think to resent their authority. They wore jeans and sat on purposefully downscale furniture, being utterly casual, unlike previous ruling classes (in one upper-class suburb, “the restaurant La Fourchette has changed its name to the less pretentious Fourchette 110”).

[Rocco DiPippo]

Isn’t Brooks the fop who while gushing over the crease in Obola’s pants “accidentally” fell face down in his lap with his mouth open?

[Mlheureux]

J6 was a civic uprising and the demons called it an Insurrection? Am I on a different planet?

[Fzob]

These nitwits are so elite they missed the “civic uprising” last November.

[Vaduz]

With the democrat approval rate down to 25% they are in hysteria mode every bit of propaganda is in the works their handy work of Biden proved to be fatal.

They are even talking about splitting the party even the captain of the Titanic knew when all hope was lost.

[SkyDancer]

He’s great.

[dennisw]

The libby equivalent of a call to arms! By the man who knew Obungu was righteous, by the crease in his trousers.

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