David Brooks’ most recent column is an extravagant intellectual tour de force, springing off an essay written by Lewis Mumford for the New Republic back in 1940, chastising his fellow “pragmatic” liberals for failing to understand the menace of totalitarianism. Brooks presents Mumford’s argument as follows: Mumford’s nominal subject was his fellow liberals’ tendency, in…
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Acela Republicans Unite! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Egos!
Yeah, like that’s going to happen! David Brooks, who’s been pretty damned tired of being a member of the, well, the Yahoo Party, wants to be able to go to a party and have a glass of decent port* without getting an earful of Jesus at the same time. So now he wants to have…
Annals of Republican Hypocrisy No. 47, 314: Vote for Us, or We’ll Fucking Kill You!
William Saletan rounds up the usual suspects, and they’re fucking ugly: Says rational Ramesh Ponnuru, “If Obama wins re-election, the Republican Party will react by moving right, not left. It will become less likely to compromise with Obama … Republicans, especially at the grassroots level, would react to Obama’s re-election by assuming that Romney failed…
David Brooks, getting all meshugana because no one will save his fat ass
Over at the NYT, David Brooks gives forth with this primal scream of primal hypocrisy, suddenly noticing that the forces of modern conservatism, which he has aided and abetted for the past twenty years to great personal profit, constitute little more than a mob of know-nothing gangstas. Here’s Dave’s thumbnail of how we got to…
Dude, he’s always been your grandmother!
Recent blog entry by Tim Noah: When Did David Brooks Turn Into My Grandmother?
Revolt of the Janeites—Bailin’ on Palin
That retching sound you may have noticed over the past few weeks may go down in history as “The Revolt of the Janeites”—the announcement by Jane Austen-reading Republicans that they are not, goddamnit, going to vote for the likes of Sarah Palin, not as long as it looks like she’s going to lose, anyway. So…