David Brooks, the moderate Republican who authored Bobos In Paradise, a terrific snapshot of bourgeois-bohemian American elites just prior to being whipsawed into severe cases of BDS by the 2000 election and 9/11, writes:
The administration has taken its faith in government to such an extreme I’m turning into Ayn Rand. Help!
Take 10 CCs of this stat, and see how you’re doing in the morning.
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Funny, but he was so impressive when he could Reinhold Neibuhr, never mind he clearly didn’t understand him, for Neibuhr, was very skeptical of the effectiveness of government action, at home and abroad. A little late, now, David
“just prior to being whipsawed into severe cases of BDS by the 2000 election and 9/11…”
It might also have to do with the money David Brooks is receiving from the New York Times. It is rumored that he “earns” $300,000 annually as their house conservative writer.
David,
Whoops–that may have been too severe a juxtaposition on my part. I didn’t mean that Brooks had BDS, but that the left as a whole did. I think I was trying to channel Charles Krauthammer’s brilliant “Pressure Cooker Theory” essay.
Ed
“I didn’t mean that Brooks had BDS”
I was actually taking it a step further than mere BDS. David Brooks has gone out of his way to slime job the GOP. He even went so far during the presidential campaign to say the Republicans deserve defeat—because they were insufficiently progressive. Brooks is a big government Republicans and hostile towards traditional thinking conservatives. It is very fair to describe Brooks as an Uncle Tom conservative—and this is why the NY Times finds him so attractive. By the way, his Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, is a superb work. Unfortunately, it’s been mostly downhill since then.