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[DonViejo]

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[niyad]

1. as opposed to the 1%ers in the puke party. davey boy, do us all a favour and retire to the

obscurity you so richly deserve.

[randys1]

2. Holy shit could he get this more wrong? Hey, Bernie has a ton of work STILL to do with

the minority groups on the left, but the idea that Bernie is only speaking to and speaking with some liberal elites?



How laughable.

[Vinca]

3. If anyone is out of touch, it's David Brooks.

[SamKnause]

4. Some people really shouldn't open

their mouths if they don't know what they

are talking about.

I am referring to you David Brooks.

[backscatter712]

5. David Brooks has just shown he's dumber than a box of rocks. n/t

[Paladin]

9. I required no further convincing on that point.

And I suspect I have a growing amount of company.

[JHB]

12. I contest your use of the word "just"...

He's been showing it consistently for several decades now.

[geek tragedy]

6. When I see the name "David Brooks" I certainly think "man of the people" nt

[closeupready]

7. Does he just make stuff up as he goes along?

He's been wrong about so many things over the years, you could probably bet profitably on the opposite outcome of his predictions.

[JHB]

14. He only makes up what he doesn't lift from his social circle...

...which includes his former employer, Bill Kristol.

[magical thyme]

8. ...

[global1]

10. I Wonder If He Thinks Jeb 'Gets The Working Class'? ......nt

[glinda]

11. Both he and E.J Dionne know from where their paychecks now come

in regards to PBS , etc....Kochs and Enbridge, etc.......
On the payola as shills and no longer viable as commentators or analysts.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Hacks, doing what they do, protecting the establishment pols and order.

[pa28]

15. David Brooks has made a career polishing brass handles of conventional wisdom.

That's exactly what he's doing here. We're supposed to believe a cloistered Washington insider like Brooks DOES understand working class Americans, blacks and latinos.

Like so many times in the past he'll be proven wrong about this too and just go skipping along like nothing happened.

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. Unlike Brooks, he not only GETS the working class, he is FROM and OF the working class.

>>>Well, it is and always has been a university crowd left in this country, a progressive element at our many fine universities. And he’s playing to that element. >>>>

Wasn't the 10,000 record setter in Minneapolis?


That's a "college town"?

Poor David thinks it's still 1972. It must be very confusing for him.

[DefenseLawyer]

17. David Brooks is the Chauncey Gardiner of right wing pundits

"Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want."

[kenfrequed]

18. I feel sorry for David Brooks.

David Brooks slandered and smeared the Clintons on behalf of the Arkansas project paid for by the Scaife family and other right wing lunatics. He wrote for the American Spectator at that time and thoroughly debased the political debate in this country for years.

He probably feels that owes an apology to Hillary, and I agree on that score.

In his book "Blinded by the Right" which I highly recommend, he really was trying to connect with his father through a shared connection of conservatism all the while he was attempting to reconcile his own sexuality. I kind of think he is doing something similar here. He feels terrible for what he did to the Clintons and he seems to want to somehow try to make it up to them.

But this is not the way.

Senator Sanders is better connected to the working class than any candidate in either party currently running for office. He votes for the working class every chance he gets and he votes for the working poor.

[Johonny]

19. How isolated a "University town" thinker is Brooks that he thinks all these groups have magic "gets"

Does Brooks know anyone working class, suburban, African-American, Latino... does he think a person wins a seat in the US senate on the magic backs of the mythical college town liberalism? How out of touch with 99% of Americans is Brooks. Where does David explain the magic get for these groups. The only thing he offers is that all these groups apparently are the same, so much for needing to get each group one on one, they all hate the Government and all love companies. No, David those are the people Donald Trump is attracting. David Brooks a self-induced idiot.