David Brooks is not a serious person

 

David Brooks: Donald Trump Is The Most Consequential American Politician Since Ronald Reagan:

 

And the fact that he's reelected and now about to take office and use executive orders to wipe out a lot of things, including the civil service potentially, or parts of it, that's just a gigantic pivot in American history. 

A president who must resort to executive orders is not consequential. The next president can wipe those out, by executive orders.

 

More importantly, there is nothing consequential about presidents who must pass major legislation through reconciliation rules, as Trump had to in 2017, which means the legislation is temporary by definition. Trump must now spend precious second term months on this same issue. He aims to extend his tax cuts for another period under reconciliation rules, which is fine, but that will also be temporary, not consequential.

 

Boehner and Obama made the Bush tax cuts, originally passed through reconciliation, permanent after Obama was re-elected in 2012. That was consequential.

The Bush tax regime is consequential. It makes Trump step and fetch it, just like Obama.

The conventional wisdom of Democrats 18 months ago was that Kamala Harris was a failed vice president

 David Brooks, here:

Because the Kamala Harris of 2020 was a terrible, terrible candidate. and, frankly, if you go back to the Democratic conventional wisdom about Kamala Harris 18 months ago, it was failed vice president. How do we get her off the ticket? And so the Democratic Party has shifted.

Laugh of the Day: The New York Times' David Brooks is a conservative the same way Obama is a Christian

But he sort of repeats himself, here in the comments section.

Laugh of the Day: David Brooks is a conservative the same way Obama was a constitutional law professor

Seen here in the comments.

David Brooks, who thinks he's so much smarter than a high school graduate, mistakenly calls stirato bread striata bread

Here.

All the recipes by the people who actually know Italian bread call it stirato. Here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

When gathering up your cultural signifiers with which to preen and beat the illegitimi over the head, David, maybe you should first make sure that they are intelligible. Looks like all those layoffs of the striata eaters at the Times are starting to expose the columnists for the ignoramuses they are.

David Brooks, the sneering elitist Jew cuckservative at the NYT thinks globalization, massive immigration and feminism have been good for America

As long as by America you mean not whitey, otherwise known as the majority of the country.

Here:

DAVID BROOKS: So we had a lot of good things over the years that were really good for America. I think globalization has been really good for America. I think the influx of immigrants has been really good for America. Feminism has been really good for America. But there are a lot of people who used to be up in society, because of those three good things, are now down, a lot of high school-educated white guys. And they have been displaced.

If I had a subscription to the NYTimes, I'd cancel it just for how David Brooks defended Obama's equation of Christianity and ISIS

David Brooks' defense of Obama is here.

Obama plays New York intellectuals like a fiddle.

Krauthammer Attempts to Define the Political Spectrum

He says, here, that a person open to both liberal and conservative views is a moderate, which would be David Brooks of The New York Times, in his opinion.

Gee, we didn't know David Brooks was open to conservative views.