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,I'd like to be more cheerful but David Brooks seems to me to be a smarmy, mush-mouthed, smirking
mug-wump whose game is to disguise bad behavior by white-washing it
Trump has been terrible for the universities, but also perversely wonderful is typical Brooksian apologetics: a layer of perfumed bullshit intended to keep everybody from thinking clearly
Nobody ever gets a usable humanistic analysis from this guy: what you get is an icepick lobotomy delivered with soporific happy-sounding nonsense