On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that by calling for the abolition of ICE, some Democrats “are making a political, and also probably a moral miscalculation.” Brooks stated, “[W]hen we see what’s happening to the kids, it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated he doesn’t believe that there will be a “massive overturn” of Roe v. Wade. Brooks said, “I don’t think it’s — the nightmare scenario on either side [the overturn of Roe],
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Trump administration should send a message that “We’re going to enforce the law, but we’re not going to be total monsters.” He added that the problem is this
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we’ve seen immigration policy that is “not treating the people as human beings. It’s treating them as just sort of pawns in some sort of larger protest movement.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the separation of families at the border by stating, “If you take qualities like affection, mercy, charity, compassion, empathy out of an administration, you wind up with policies like this.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Trump did “do a good thing” with North Korea by settling tensions, but did so “in the worst possible way” by ignoring North Korea’s human rights abuses. Brooks stated, “I
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s latest tariff announcement by stating the president “just has a mentality that sees the world as me and enemies.” Brooks said, “I think what strikes me is Donald
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued President Trump is pardoning “the extreme right-wing swamp” one person at a time. Brooks stated, “Usually, there’s a process where you decide there’s some injustice, or somebody’s exemplary in some way
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump “realized that the Mueller investigation is not a bad thing for him, but a good thing for him,” the stories about Mueller have been overplayed, and “we’re stuck in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Israeli military had months to figure out how to avoid shooting most of the people coming across the fence in Gaza and “took no effort” to do so. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that his views on President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran deal are “very mixed” and President Obama’s argument for the deal has been disproven by time. He further stated that based
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the GOP tax bill is working better than he thought it would and the evidence “seems to be that what the Trump people told us would happen is happening, that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks responded to the Stormy Daniels revelations by stating that the “main fact” is that we’ve reached a point where the president paying a porn star to keep quiet “seems normal.” He also argued
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated former FBI Director James Comey “passes the smell test, by and large.” Brooks also si that the portions of Comey’s book that he has read also pass the smell test. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that asking about citizenship on the Census doesn’t seem unusual “In normal times,” but “given the climate, it strikes me as a menacing question and probably a counterproductive one.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton’s approach does increase the chances of military action in North Korea and Iran, and that while Bolton “just has a bellicose, old style,” combined
A New York Times column published this week by David Brooks argues that modern America values identity over individual thought.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the Trump administration is getting into “C and D” level staffers and cited Larry Kudlow and John Bolton as examples. Brooks said, “[W]hat worries me is, they never had really
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated he couldn’t think of any historical parallel to the current White House, which has “a semi-competent or a missing staff and an emotionally and intellectually unstable president.” Brooks said, “I’m actually
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s proposal to allow teachers to carry firearms by stating that such an idea is “truly demented.” Brooks said, “It’s a demented idea. I mean, aside from everything else,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there is “sort of a national frenzy on both sides” on gun control. Brooks stated that the relative lack of gun restrictions compared to looser gun laws since Sandy Hook
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Trump’s and Chief of Staff John Kelly’s responses to former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter smell of “an archaic 1940s, 1950s idea that we have the world of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that “everyone’s a hypocrite” on deficits and the Republican Party is “an identity party, not an economic party, right now.” Brooks stated, “What strikes me as special about this is that
The New York Times columnist David Brooks writes in a “memo” to Democratic Party leaders that their support for abortion on demand up until birth is hurting their party.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks responded to the House GOP Intel memo by stating that it isn’t good that the FBI didn’t disclose to the court that they were using information from the Steele dossier and who
New York Times columnist David Brooks tells himself that the cost and diversity made possible by cheap-labor immigration is a good thing because, well, immigrants are just better than Americans in every way.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while there would be outrage if President Trump fired Special Counsel Robert Mueller, “we’ve defined deviancy down” and grown accustomed to behavior that would have shocked people a year ago.
While discussing the political implications of the government shutdown on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued it would be “ruinous” for the Republican Party if it turns into the party of Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on immigration. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks responded to the government shutdown by stating, “I’m embarrassed for my country.” Brooks said, “I’m embarrassed for my country. You know, we’ve gotten used to these shutdowns, but we really shouldn’t ever.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks responded to President Trump’s reported “sh*thole” comment by stating the president lacks “normal human compassion or curiosity” and that the comment fits into a “pattern” of “harsh judgment of — against black
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump “thinks government is sort of a family mafia business, and he can shut it down, and loyalty to the Don is the primary value here.” Brooks said, “Well, we knew
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while the president “has severe mental flaws,” it is “overly simplistic” to suggest the president has completely lost it. Brooks said that he didn’t know what to believe in Michael
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the media is partially to blame for Republicans losing faith in the press because the media didn’t hire Republicans and the media has “become an Ivy League profession for people
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republican distrust in the media is “partly shame on Donald Trump.” After stating that the loss of trust in the media is “partly shame on us” in the media for not
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed the impacts of the GOP tax bill and argued that “we could all — it doesn’t make sense to work for a company anymore, when you can declare yourself a corporation and pay the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized the Republican tax bill as “donor maintenance” that is “about hurting their people and helping our people” without any economic philosophy at its core. Brooks said, “This bill has nothing to
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said if Alabama Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore wins his special election on Tuesday, the Republican Party will be “repulsive” to millennials and people of color. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Senate Al Franken (D-MN) was pushed out of the Senate in part for “political opportunism” by Democrats to claim the moral high ground over Republicans and this seems to be
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that if Alabama Republican Senate nominee Judge Roy Moore wins, it will result in “a generation who find the Republican Party something they can’t relate to.” Brooks said, “[T]o me, the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that changed attitudes towards sexual harassment and abuse are partially a reaction to President Trump. Brooks said, “I was wondering, would we — Harvey Weinstein, that probably would have happened. But
