Posted on 08/03/2023 10:35:09 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Anti-Trump New York Times columnist David Brooks shocked political commentators on Twitter when he admitted he and the so-called "elite" have used self-serving tactics to maintain power and a sense of moral superiority over the Trump supporters they detest.
"I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys," Brooks wrote in a column Wednesday.
"Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out," Brooks wrote of the liberal elite in America. The column detailed how the "educated class" imagine themselves as the "forces of progress and enlightenment" to appease their own egos, as part of a broader tale that paints them as enlightened and Trump supporters as bigots and fools.
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A rare display of self reflection and honesty.
So now that he has seen the light, what’s he going to do about it?
His point is that many are turning to Trump, who he hates, because they resent the elite-ness of today’s mainstream media talkers and writers.
Yes, you are THE BAD GUYS.
He calls out the elite for their parochial perspective but still characterizes Trump supporters as uneducated.
Bill Mahar represents what liberalism used to look like..what happened after that I have no idea..Id like to ask the AOC types who say they are “Progressives” what exactly are they trying to progress..if they could wake up tomorrow with the America they envision what would it look like..
It looks like he finally figured it out—the people who write the rules rig the game so they always win—and everybody else loses.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day.................
“if they could wake up tomorrow with the America they envision what would it look like..”
We know what it would like—downtown San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.
He’s right.
"Surveying modern America. One does not get the impression of elite institutions ruthlessly focused on competence and bottom-line outcomes. Not sure what David Brooks is smoking."
Green makes the case for Brooks. The lack of being "ruthlessly focused on competence and bottom-line outcomes" exactly defines an "elite" which is focused on controlling access to institutions and is far more interested in ideological posturing than in the bottom line.
100% agree.
Thus Brooks reveals the reason I call him an A....le.
Yet Newsom is going to run for President, trying to turn America into California..and most will go with that idea
Whoa, a major waking-up event.
Self-styled “elites” = The Enemy Within
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This is a theme that Brooks has written and spoken about before.
On the PBS broadcast on 2016 election night he said much the same thing.
He still goes thru flattering his audience, and yes he says Trump is, of course, bad.
He notes that GDP is concentrated in a small number of urban Democrat counties. But I think he is coming to grips with elite ioncompetence, elite decline.
When the cluster munitions decision was made. Brooks noted that DoD said they couldn’t currently produce the ammunition needed. And Brooks was asking “how did that happen?”
I really dislike the term “American Elites”.
What does that even mean?
They can leap tall buildings in a single bound?
They’re rich?
They are considered good looking?
They have a piece of paper from some school?
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