Posted on 12/13/2021 7:39:38 AM PST by Salman
It was Biden who was swimming in the pool naked. Sicko perv.
Ah Man! I was looking for an OPUS! . . . and kitties!
Take your soppressata sandwich on baguette and shove it up your perfectly creased pants, Brooks.
The best thing for real conservatism is to stop watching those RINO establishment wonks and politicians on Sunday Morning Talk shows and to start listening to your neighbors and friends and start finding a news source that isn’t AP, Reuters, UPI, AFP, CBS, NBC, ABC or MSDNC et al.
Oh, and I can’t stress this enough - your local drive time AM/FM news? They’re all leftists who get their news trash from AP and your local leftist news rags.
As soon as I saw reading the excerpt of this article I immediately asked myself what useful skills or ideas David Brooks could ever bring to any situation. The dope is a media hack because he can barely tie his own shoes.
Great read. Thanks for posting. 🙂
Bush League Republicans were never conservatives.
They just played them on TV.
Like Liberace standing up and announcing he was no longer straight.
I watched them all in the 80s and 90s.....all so-called conservatives but what they really were (are) is a bunch of establishment professional losers, VERY comfortable in their second-tier power and influence seeming to be opposition but really are the loyal-but-not-too-vocal opposition. Content with the scraps that leftism in power throws them. Content in the DC and NYC parties they go to and are slapped on the back by their Democrat masters.
If Trump did anything, he exposed them one and all. For instance, look at what a real weasel Bill Kristol revealed himself to be. Even Chris Wallace back before he was on TV Sunday news shows before Fox - now where is he? I won’t say anything about a couple of the others because they are either dead now or just senile and retired, but they were there, too. Front and center apologism mixed with pseudo-conservative trappings.
David Brooks is the media analog to Liz Cheney.
From the article:
“Conservatism is dying and what is rising up in its place is first and foremost a rejection of the core ideas of radicalism. Equality, freedom, and democracy are no longer axioms of the right. Instead, what lies at the heart of the new right is an acceptance of the human condition and the implications that flow from it.”
Does anyone have an idea of what the author is saying in this ¶, particularly in the last two paragraphs?, cause I got nothin’.
Correction: ...particularly in the last two sentences of this paragraph?
Orthodox Conservatism is something I’ve been ranting about on this site for decades.
Endless enemies and wars
Free Trade
Open Borders
Export of Capital Stock
Political Charlatans and Liars...all of them.
Conservatism without Nationalism is like Faith without Works
Why should we expect a liberal philosophy like conservatism to conserve anything?
I totally agree on this.
Trump may not have been able to drain the swamp completely but he drained it enough for us to see the "Republicans" wearing Democrat clothing.
George “Four Eyes” Will
That’s not conservatism. That is classical liberalism. Free To Choose may not have intended for silliness such as men pretending to be women but it aided and abetted the process.
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