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..
A stopped clock is correct twice a day.................
"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.
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?
Color me shocked.
It has to have something to do with his self-interest in the Dem Party. Maybe he can see the writing on the wall that Biden, Inc. is going down.
I have a bachelor’s degree, a law degree and a masters of law degree, all from elite schools. I must be part of “the less-educated class” that Brooks describes, though, because I despise him and is ilk with every fiber of my being.
I’ve said it before. Democrats have to save the country or it’s done. If left to the Repukes it’s already done. Rats have to be willing to see that what has been done to Trump has gone waaaayyyy to far. A substantial number or Democrats (not necessarily the politicians) need to drop the hate and back Trump against this or it’s game over for all. Doesn’t look like they are there yet but here’s hoping.
He is simply getting out ahead of it to say, “see I'm objective “.
“I wrote that one article recently warning the libs of their hubris. Put me on a Sunday show. “
The problem with modern day elites is that they got ahead through nepotism, ass kissing and diversity quotas . They lack the intelligence and class of older elites.
The real failure IMHO is that these elites are incapable of seeing the results of their policies and actions. If they do notice they immediately shift blame to others. There is nothing elite about them. Look at any of them. Mayorkas, Buttgieg, Kissinger.... Everywhere they go they spread disaster through their incompetence. And then blame someone else. Worse is that too often it’s not incompetence. It’s purposeful evil.
He’s right. The elites are the bad guys. A reckoning is coming.