David Brooks
David Brooks
Conservative political columnist for the New York Times. He also wrote for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times and provided political commentary for National Public Radio (NPR) and the PBS NewsHour.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 August 1961
CityToronto, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
class views politics
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
memories mind remember
The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.
people miracle series
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
pain
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
art people culture
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.
people needs individual-power
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
war achieve legitimacy
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness.
far further gotten needed reduce talked
We've talked about it but it hasn't gotten that far yet. If we needed to do something further to reduce (appliances), we might.
week offense
[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.
country people president
You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith in government. If you're a liberal, it's just going to be tough. And you should just expect that. And it's tough for people on the right, too, because they don't get what they want either if you're, say, a libertarian. So, you have got the country sort of against you. And, nevertheless, you have a president...
strong thinking darkness
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.
language english-language
There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.
party president democratic
Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.