David Brooks on Violent Protests: "Trump Generates Sort Of Excitement That Gives Them A Pretext"

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 4, 2016 | Ian Schwartz

[Eddie01]

A guest on David’s show should pullout a couple eggs and a water bottle and smash him in the face - egg - egg - water bottle and state - “I have a pretext”

[choctaw man]

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

[Paladin2]

No, 0dungo’s puppet master $0r0s funds them.

[RightGeek]

Brooks is a twit.

[TomGuy]

Wrong, Brooks.

The instigators are paid professional protesters.

They are protesting because they are getting paid to do so, not because they have some gripe about a political candidate.

[orchestra]

So does this girl...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCx3ov55tUw

[BiggerTigger]

Paid professional protestors terrorists.

[Lurker]

Brock is on my airport list.

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[euram]

Why not just come right out and say it: Mexicans, like blacks, are too immature, and infantile to control their emotions, and must be given a pass for their bad behavior, and temper tantrums.

[miss marmelstein]

How does he explain the Sanders violence at that conference with Boxer?

[Drango]

Might as well say:

If that woman hadn’t worn such a short skirt, she wouldn’t have been raped.

[ballplayer]

Typical liberal bullcrapq when they can’t blame the republican,say everyone’s benefits or no one benefits

[IWontSubmit]

Brooks is a walking, breathing pretext.

It’s happened before but then the self-hating crowd never learns.

[NeoCaveman]

Brooks is just jealous, he’s never excited anyone in his life.

[AustinBill]

It’s called the soft prejudice of lowered expectations. Par for the course on the DC cocktail circuit.

[Chaguito]

David, you got me all excited!

[laconic]

Brooks talks tough and there is nothing about him to justify it.

[grania]

Blacks with somewhat legitimate gripes got hijacked by Black Lives Matter. The result was two cities burned to the ground. Hispanics who've been here for years without breaking additional laws had a somewhat legitimate concern about if they should be allowed to stay. They got hijacked by LaRaza, that wants to turn the US into the country they original protestors don't want to return to. Bernie supporters have a somewhat legitimate gripe about the dems rigged system (they're losing even without the rigged delegates). Have they been hijacked by anarchists?

If authorities don't wake up and smarten up before the conventions, I fear that Philly and Cleveland and even other cities could become Damascus, Kiev or Cairo. It seems all of these protest groups have been hijacked by those who want to cause as much destruction as they can.

[JoeFromSidney]

it would be nice if the Republican party would distance itself from him.

Just who is this "Republican Party?" Trump is attracting the voters. They are the party, not the RNC. Those who have voted for him are not going to distance themselves from him. The so-called "party leaders" have to realize they are not leading the parade. The parade went off in a different direction some time ago.