The Delusion May Be Breaking
New York Times columnist David Brooks made the following statement on the PBS News Hour last week. For those of you who might not be familiar with David Brooks, he’s been a columnist, an opinion writer for the Times since 2003, and at some point not too long after, he came to be regarded as the favorite conservative columnist of what could be called Democratic Party America. This would refer to the party leadership, those elected as Democrats and those who see themselves as members of or loyalists to the Democratic Party. His position at The Times gives him a greater access to the public, and our political machinery, than most writers would ever even bother to hope for. He’s been regarded, throughout his tenure, as a “moderate Republican/moderate conservative.” This can mean many things to many people. Being familiar with his work, having read a good deal of it, my impression of Brooks is that his job, at least how he sees his job, is to launder conservative ideology to ...
