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D. Spaulding

(423 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 12:28 AM Wednesday

Did anyone read David Brooks piece in The Atlantic? [View all]

Pretty powerful call to action against the damage of what Trump's doing, and to think, it had to come from someone who identifies as a conservative.

"Although Trump’s actions across these various spheres may seem like separate policies, they are part of one project: creating a savage war of all against all and then using the presidency to profit and gain power from it. Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite. Trumpism is an attempt to make the world a playground for the rich and ruthless, so it seeks to dissolve the sinews of moral and legal restraint that make civilization decent."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/autocracy-resistance-social-movement/684336/

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Read it? I just posted as much as DU allows. usonian Wednesday #1
He's been simping for the Republicans for the last 10 years. And now he's worried? GoneOffShore Wednesday #2
Not sure this take of David Brooks is on the nose. summer_in_TX Thursday #7
I've always found him to be intellectually dishonest with just a hint of misogyny. GoneOffShore Thursday #9
He is an arrogant halfwit Cosmocat Thursday #12
Yeah, my memory of him was that he once was obnoxious and pompous. He's better now but I don't know if I trust him. CTyankee Thursday #17
Thank you, David Brooks!!!!! nt LAS14 Wednesday #3
Back of the line, David BaronChocula Wednesday #4
Yes I read it earlier today, and there are people complaining loudly about Brooks who have not ... Hekate Wednesday #5
Couldn't agree more. D. Spaulding Wednesday #6
Thank you, a great read. Abolishinist Thursday #8
Years late, billions short . . . hatrack Thursday #10
Yes indeed. Still proud of David for his eloquence on this subject. librechik Thursday #11
Correct Cosmocat Thursday #14
DU comments on threads like these make me wonder sometimes GusBob Thursday #13
its tough for anyone who called bullshit on the likes of Brooks and Friedman Cosmocat Thursday #15
I see your point. I feel like saying "Oh, NOW you are complaining? Where have you BEEN?!!! CTyankee Thursday #18
Correct. The vast pools of money in various places proved too much of a temptation for those wiggs Thursday #16
Better late than never peggysue2 Thursday #19
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