NYT Columnist Asks, 'What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?'

PJ Media ^ | 3 Aug 2023 | Lincoln Brown

[Rummyfan]

In an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Wednesday, David Brooks had the headline, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” In it, Brooks struggles with the question of why Trump has a commanding lead over the other GOP hopefuls and why he seems essentially tied with Joe Biden on a national basis. All of this despite the fact that Trump continues to rack up indictments like a grandma on a winning bingo streak at The Villages.

To his credit, Brooks does conduct a fairly exhaustive self-examination. In the piece, he enumerates the ways and provides examples of how America’s elites have lost touch with, well, everyone else. He reflects on how elitism extends to the workplace:

Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out. When I began my journalism career in Chicago in the 1980s, there were still some old crusty working-class guys around the newsroom. Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession. Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.

[old school]

Look, Ive known people, who have attained advanced degrees and are dumb as stumps. I, also, know that it takes some degree of intellect to gain admission, let alone obtain a degree, from MIT or Harvard. I, also, know that some “special” people are passed-along and grajiate in spite of their low academic achievement. ‘Nuff said!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession.

When did we as a society decide that leftists get to claim that they are "elite"? Aside from the debasement of the word "elite", it gives leftists a completely undeserved image of themselves as being somehow more than adequate, when they are in fact far less than adequate.

[BobL]

“I have advanced access to the text of Trumps inaugeration speech scheduled for 1/20/2025. In its entirety it reads as follows, “Paybacks a bitch””

Now that would be GREAT. All the pomp and circumstance, hand shaking, and then the introduction:

“Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States”

Then Trump speaks: “Payback’s a bitch”

Then he walks down, shakes hands, and leaves.