Brooks ignores his culpability fostering a GOP for whom Trump is the rightful standard-bearer A line btw parties isn't the political center
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I'd say enabling or cheerleading before “fostering.” But yes, a long standing gripe of mine is his belief that 20thC GOP was 18thC nobility
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Blaming academia for civilization's demise when education level predicted Trumpist voting patterns "fosters"…http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/ …
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Thanks. Wow where to start…but try this: every time Silver wrote “HRC outdid vs BHO, sub “Romney outdid Trump” (etc). EVERY such comparison…
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…seems at least as apt. And using Romney as a proxy for Brooks, reinforces anger that Brooksian conservatives see civilization only when…
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…a genteel White man is the GOP standard-bearer. Civilization has not declined sharply in 4 yrs, the GOP has degenerated into a band of …
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…thieves and fenceposts. Yes disgust at Silver's and Brooks's “naïve” framing riled me up…they should know better and I hoped Brooks knew.
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I see nonspecific allegations of authoritarianism against Trump. What am I missing that makes Trump more authoritarian than recent pres?
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Many examples, e.g. calling news sources fake, threatening to change libel laws. Check out Sam's podcast with frum.
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The great lie of liberalism is people naturally want freedom. They naturally want comfort. We have to be taught how to be free. This is...
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...why it's so essential to study the West and not just liberalism. Liberalism needs the dialectic to support it; illiberalism does not.
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Trump, whatever you think of him personally, is an understandable overcompensation to the pathological decompensation of the left...
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Or the demise of Humanities education and the acknowledgment of its importance and purpose.
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Yesterday was the anniversary of the founding of Rome, the birthplace of our society, institutions and much of our culture. Nobody cared.
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The people who already know this read it anyway. Those for whom the article is intended are barely literate in the first place.
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Better headline: How the left, after decades of brutal attacks managed to endanger Western Civ.
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Do you ever read the comment sections on these op-eds, Sam? IMO, they can be far more enlightening...
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