On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that even after reading news articles about the struggles of U.S. Senate candidate and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), “I was unprepared for how much he was struggling.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “a lot of Democrats,” “for too long” told voters, “here’s what you should care about, democracy and Dobbs. These are the major issues.” And when the voters responded
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Democrats have failed “to show they have some credibility” on crime or to demonstrate that “Democratic mayors can keep the streets safe.” Brooks said, “I do think there
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he doubts anything coming out of the January 6 Committee will have much of an impact on the upcoming midterm elections because people are “voting on their own
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that we’re not in a situation like the Cuban Missile Crisis and he gets the impression that the Biden administration views the prospect of Russia deploying nuclear weapons as
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there isn’t anything President Joe Biden can do about gas prices going up in the wake of OPEC+’s decision to cut its oil production, Biden “tried” to keep
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the election results in Italy and Sweden send “a big message for Joe Biden, you’ve got to control the borders. Americans like immigration, but they want control of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that while current weather patterns are alarming and it’s lamentable that climate change discussions have become partisan, combatting climate change requires worldwide, collective action, and he’s “not too optimistic”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he didn’t have any problem with President Joe Biden giving a speech on threats to democracy “he should have called out his own party” for spending millions of dollars
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the Biden White House pointing to Republican members of Congress who got Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans forgiven to respond to criticism of its student loan program is wrong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation program is “too politically designed, not economically designed.” And the measure is Democrats “feeding their base. And part of their base happens
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the abortion vote in Kansas is “a vindication of the voters,” that if people have “actual choices, as opposed to extremes in state legislatures, most of the states, the vast
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that inflation is “truly terrible” and the Biden White House “is being too gentle about talking about it, too upbeat” in its rhetoric about inflation. He also said that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he believes that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had “an intellectual awakening” where he realized that the idea that spending on climate change is inflationary “was just economically wrong”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there are things like promoting nuclear power and natural gas that can help the environment and can actually get passed. He also stated, “You can scream, and you
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is “a giant gap between what a lot of Democrats want to talk about and what the whole rest of the country wants to talk about.” Because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “turned out to be 100% right” about inflation while “other Democrats, turned out to be 100% wrong.” And that you can argue that Manchin
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections will be decided based on economic issues unless there is some dramatic change in the economy and that voters tend to be more in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even a ban on future purchases of guns would not reduce the number of guns in America and that reducing the number of guns in America would require something akin
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the regulatory authority of the EPA by stating that he believes there’s a “sound principle” that as much policy as possible should be
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections are ultimately going to be about the state of the economy and not abortion. Brooks stated that the lasting electoral impact of the court’s
During Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks elaborated on his criticisms of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee, which he had suggested in a recent Times column as being too political.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there should be a distinction between “defensive gun use,” like people using firearms for self-defense and the “offensive use” of firearms for murder and that “a lot of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that regulations on firearms such as assault weapons bans and other kinds of regulations have been shown by research to have an “underwhelming” effectiveness “in actually preventing violence and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it’s possible to persuade some people by rephrasing gun control as “gun regulation. Like, we have driving regulation, we have cars, and we regulate the cars.” And stated that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it would be a good thing if the Supreme Court ignored public opinion on Roe v. Wade in coming to a decision on abortion because the Supreme Court’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that in an ideal world, if the abortion issue is put to state legislatures, “we would wind up where Europe is” on abortion “where they say, there are strong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Roe v. Wade was always a “fragile” ruling and pointed out that former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed similar concerns about the decision back in 1992.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats are facing poor poll numbers because “the whole zeitgeist of the country has deteriorated over the last year. And I would say it’s been a threat of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that even though China’s new security deal with the Solomon Islands shows “China’s on the move.” The Biden administration deserves credit for being “very focused on China.” He also
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Western Europe is not just following the U.S.” in pushing back against Russian aggression, and “in many important ways, they’re leading the way.” Brooks said, “Well, the U.S.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while there is inflation taking place everywhere in the world, America’s inflation numbers are “significantly higher” than the numbers in most of the other comparable countries and this
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the number of people trying to come to the U.S. is “probably beyond our capacity to absorb all the people who want to come.” And the current numbers
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases “never” work and he is “guardedly skeptical” that President Joe Biden’s plan to release from the SPR “is going to do much” to lower
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson by stating that there are some “Republican senators who are not really senators. They’re cable TV
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s poor approval numbers on his handling of Ukraine are a reflection of partisanship and “we’re just not as resilient a country as we were when you could
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he thinks increased coronavirus funding is needed, “the Republicans are right to make that point that we need to pay for this money.” Because deficit spending fuels
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “for the last few years, has been pretty much right on Ukraine and Russia” and has “been very aggressive.” And noted that Republicans have
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Russian military is likely to achieve some very “disheartening successes over the next days and weeks.” But, despite this, “faith has been restored” “in the leadership of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Joe Biden has done a good job of handling the crisis in Ukraine, despite the “weak” sanctions that are due to Europe and the U.S. relying on Russian energy and
