I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?
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(And I was raised Lutheran)
Conservative thinking (small government, low taxes, no regulation, etc) went into the dustbin of history, so angry Republicans dug fascism out of the dustbin.
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"You made me do this to you by resisting me"
like winning the space race, progressive women's and human rights, ... oh and...LITERALLY DEFEATING THE NAZIS
Brooks is just disappointed that although he provided cover for them for decades, the rubes he detests are running the show.
Contemporary liberalism without a social or communal politics is shockingly effective at enabling private property accumulation
Why do we tolerate this system?
Conservative: I think we should burn the corpses of poor people for fuel.
Liberal/Leftist: that's fucked up.
Conservative: HOW DARE YOU PURGE MY IDEAS FROM ACADEMIA
these days, the character fulfills decidedly different wishes
The right has fought tooth and nail to keep POC away from education, and the middle class since forever.
Ten billion feet
Dance that rock solid
Hate amerikkka beat
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It's the virulent "left" blaming. When conservatives fail, the "left" is somehow suppose to fix it. When conservative ideology is unpopular, the "left" needs to compromise.
Trump is the pinnicle of conservative whine
Old-stock conservatives have real trouble with the cognitive dissonance Trump causes, so they get a dig in at the left to ease the pain
No matter the evidence, no matter the reasoning, regardless of historical context, conservatives will ALWAYS find a way to blame Liberals for the failures of conservatism.
These long words are full of letters.
This was typed out by some sort of fascist who is impersonating a Libertarian .
Sorry, not sorry.
Oh, so it was a bunch of leftists who built segregationists academies in the south after Brown v Board?
They'll be surprised to hear it.
Brooks is still carrying on in a tad less arrogant, but consistent, way on PBS Newshour. He insists that the resistance to Trump must not “fight,” but persuade. 🙄
Even in terms of the kind of wild right-wing conspiracy theories that make up most of this paragraph, I have no idea how he could reach this conclusion.
When he says "The Left" he genuinely means "The Progressive Left" instead of Liberals and the Democratic party?
This is him living in his head and dumping all the blame on the Dems and left while conveniently ignoring everything that was happening on the Right.
Brooks, Douthat, and Stephens are fabulists concocting fantasies from their comfortable coastal elite perches
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shitposts and dunk-tweets
and/or people who care about facts earnestly expressing their feelings about policies in various venues
and conservatives being told again and again about a woke mind virus, the joke becoming a mass delusion
Instead, he puts all his mental effort conjuring up excuses for why the terrible things happening are the fault of the people who tried to prevent them from happening instead of cheerleaders like him.
to Vance has been educated at these “liberal” universities so they were pretty crappy at brainwashing.
so infuriating.
oh ffs.
I'm sorry; *when* were conservatives "voiceless," exactly? They never fucking shut up!
Anyway, table flipping, sounds good to me. Let's flip.
oh the shame
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The Atlantic is taking the same shitty road.
I’ve always said Brooks was an insidious, smarmy asshole, always pushing his nasty, masked, conservative agenda while putting on a holier-than-though persona. Fuck him.
Sh, don't tell Brooks.
I think this type of formal posturing, defending your flank, makes sense in debates, but we aren’t having debates anymore.
Because, like, how many universities have a Marxist in their economics department? Is that the kind of ideological purge you’re talking about?
Oh, not that one.
This article could have been written 10 years ago.
Brooks really wants to know why we're not clapping harder for conservative Tinkerbell.
They want to be validated in their ignorance, not challenged to overcome it.
Was whining about civil rights and desegregation.
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Taxes
Family values
Small government
Rule of law
The Constitution
Troops/Vets
Human trafficking
Free speech
Economic prosperity?
They have no conviction/principles
And, conservatives are not silenced in our society, that much should be obvious to anyone watching current events.
Most of this is verifiably false …
This is the man who drank whisky shots at the airport and then whined that his hamburger was $78. Clueless.
-abusers proverb
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Some (the rich) on the left participated in it, for sure. Valorized? When? Who? And if anyone did, were they really speaking for “the left?”
Mostly “the left” has been highly critical of that caste system.
He just has access to a thesaurus while the others think a thesaurus is a dinosaur from Jurassic Park.
Progressives have always been about building working class movements that include solidarity with everyone.
Never met a labor organizer pontificating publicly about gender norms. Just politicians.