A couple of thousand words on David Brooks without mentioning Ronald Reagan? That in itself is an achievement!
David Brooks's patron saint is the mythological Ronald Reagan: you know, the one who high-mindedly fought international communism and,to hear the Brooks crowd tell it, single-handedly ended the Cold War. Not, of course, the racist-Southern-strategy Ronald Reagan or the radical Ronald Reagan who launched the idea that government in itself was a pernicious entity -- the problem, as he put it, not the solution.
There is a straight line from Ronald Reagan through Newt Gingrich to Donald Trump. And Brooks won't admit it. sadly, he doesn't even recognize it.
A couple of thousand words on David Brooks without mentioning Ronald Reagan? That in itself is an achievement!
David Brooks's patron saint is the mythological Ronald Reagan: you know, the one who high-mindedly fought international communism and,to hear the Brooks crowd tell it, single-handedly ended the Cold War. Not, of course, the racist-Southern-strategy Ronald Reagan or the radical Ronald Reagan who launched the idea that government in itself was a pernicious entity -- the problem, as he put it, not the solution.
There is a straight line from Ronald Reagan through Newt Gingrich to Donald Trump. And Brooks won't admit it. sadly, he doesn't even recognize it.