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In reply to the discussion: from David Brooks, OpEd in the NY Times: [View all]
Cosmocat
(15,366 posts)24. I am well aware of those other convervatives
as a someone who has closely followed our politics and seen this coming for nearly a half decade now.
I have differing views of each of them.
To me he is with Kristol and the other arrogant "intellectual conservatives" who droned on for many decades about how awesome republicanism was and how horrible liberalism was, doing incredible damage as supposed "honest brokers" by legitimizing right wing lunacy - who now want to act with the same supposed legitimacy and taking no responsibility, in fact putting the blame on democrats for DT.
He is the same disingenuous snake today that he was when I wanted to smash my TV over his bleeting horseshit in the 90s.
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In the 2nd admin he, and his minions, have complete control of the power infrastructure.
Boomerproud
Sep 2025
#6
What's your point? Are you saying we should give up? Are you saying there is no hope?
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#9
It's you. The citizens of the United States have the leverage, even when all else fails, at above 3.5 pcent
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#16
The people see the people protesting. Even right wing sites comment on it, so even the Fox tunnel vision crowd know
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#40
We need to join with every single David Brooks out there, because they're the ones that have a chance
pnwmom
Sep 2025
#5
Are you saying we should give up because it is lost? And that we should attack everyone who fails a purity test?
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#10
Will you stop asking every poster who makes a salient point if they're saying we should give up? OBVIOUSLY
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#27
I'm not doing that. OBVIOUSLY I"m not saying that. And the poster did not say what you say they said.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#30
OBVIOUSLY I don't disagree with any of your purity test questions. So congratulations.
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#31
Twice in this thread you asked people if they were telling us to give up because they
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#33
Again you soft-pedal absolutist doomerism as "not doing the cheerleader thing". . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2025
#36
Yep. I do. Because people are on this site for a reason. And sometimes the terror
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#37
just this week he implied that the MAGA uprising is caused by the progressives having control over media
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Sep 2025
#23
He ALWAYS does that. Sounds reasonable at first, then tells us it's Democrats' faults.
Scrivener7
Sep 2025
#28
Yes!!!! Underneath his facade of reasonableness, he is a sneaky rightwinger
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Sep 2025
#34