David Brooks: Time for a civic uprising

Brooks: Trump divides and conquers; we must unite and build

HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington In his isolated attacks, Trump has divided our loyalties. It’s time for a civic and civil uprising. Brooks: Trump divides and conquers; we must unite and build Wire Service

He's No Patrick Henry: NYT’s David Brooks Burps Up Call for ‘Uprising’ Against Trump

He's No Patrick Henry: NYT’s David Brooks Burps Up Call for ‘Uprising’ Against Trump The New York Times insufferable pontificator-in-chief David Brooks is calling for a revolution against President Donald Trump over his economic populism and government bloat-gutting agenda. “What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal,” proclaimed Brooks in his pretentious April 17 column. The propaganda dribbled through the ent…

Why David Brooks finally gets it mostly right about the need for an uprising.

In a surprising article, David Brooks jumps on the uprising bandwagon even if he does not fully understand that Trumpism goes beyond Reagan. The post Why David Brooks finally gets it mostly right about the need for an uprising. appeared first on EgbertoWillies.com.

David Brooks: Time for a civic uprising

"These are not separate battles. This is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump’s acquisition of power. And it will take a concerted response to beat it back," Brooks writes.

David Brooks mans the barricades

Yesterday, in his New York Times column, David Brooks called for a mass uprising against Donald Trump. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, much less read. But this is 2025, and with Trump on a rampage, things are getting very weird indeed.  Brooks, a former senior editor at the Weekly Standard, among other things, is pretty much center-right, and his columns usually maintain a certain smug vapidity. He seems to love jabbing at anyth…

David Brooks, His Eyes Uncovered!

You don’t get it? And you call yourself a nerd? Fine, here.Somebody must have snuck into David Brooks’s home and left Tracy Chapman’s first album on autorepeat, because three months of Donald Trump’s second term have that icon of staid, muddleheaded center-right “moderation” Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution. In his New York Times column yesterday (gift link … Or Temba, his arms wide link), Brooks makes the case that Trump and Trumpism threaten all the…