Political Observer comments on his latest Anti-Trump diatribe, as if his own Political Past has been carefully eroded of any stain!
Apr 18, 2025
Editor: Mr. Brooks’ opening paragraps:
In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must.
But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life. These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short.
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Editor: collecting ready-made cliche’s is Mr. Brooke strong suit ‘The Collapse’ being his entance into ‘New York Times World’. But The Reader confronts in this 1124 word essay is these political actors:
NATO, Perkins Coie, Harvard, Columbia, Big Ten,Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, (Think of the civil rights movement at Selma.), “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond.
But note Mr. Brook’s self-descritpion in his final paragraph, that reeks of placing himself above and or beyond the frey, that somehow retains political credibility, in Brooks’ self-conception?
I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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