I wanted to see if the article was as dumb as the headline…

It is.

It’s an opinion piece from some douchebag boomer who used to write for National Review.

Don’t forget the Times claims to be “independent” but that means a family trust owns it and it’s been run by generations of the same family

Regardless of how the current chairman’s great great grandfather intended it to be, generational wealth pointed it to fascism like generational wealth always does

Someone raised with that level of wealth just doesn’t think of us as people. They’re never socialized around people without 7+ figure trust funds. So we’re not “real” we’re an abstract concept to them.

I’ll say here what I said to the other guy: I’m not taking advice on leftist politics from a Republican.

It’s good to see that David Brooks is still out there somewhere, still with his baffling unique talent for being wrong and not saying anything both at once in the same editorial.

If Trump appeals the SNAP court order, that’s bad PR for the GOP.

No, no, Trump has stolen the Times! The lefties don’t give a fuck about it, though.

I noticed the striking similarities between the US Republican Party and the Russian Communist Party long ago. The lip service about “smaller government” while in reality loving victimless crime laws and big brother government. The love of dishonesty and disinformation. Encouraging followers to suspend all critical thinking skills and embrace shallow dogmas and cult of personality. Trying to rule through bullying and intimidation. Love of authoritarianism. The ultimate emphasis on raw power over ideology.

This stuff is especially ironic given the false claims of right wing kooks that anything they don’t like is “communist”. Republicans are the actual “communist” threat because they use the same tactics and have the same contempt for democracy as the Bolsheviks.