Political Observer offers the last three paragraphs of Brook’s self-congratulatory chatter, & his genuflection to Ronald Reagan, that I have highlighted, and his swipe against Gavin Newsom!
Nov 28, 2025
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A survey this year sponsored by the Reagan Institute found that 83 percent of Americans believe America should stand up for human rights and democracy around the world. A large majority believe that America should take the lead in international events, including 69 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of self-identified MAGA Republicans.
A study done by Seamus A. Power, Richard A. Schweder and others and published this year in the journal Ethos, found that Americans still love diversity. Two-thirds of them want a more ethnically and racially diverse nation than exists even now. A majority of white Christians have a multicultural conception of America. Only a tiny percentage believe in the “great replacement: theory. Only 1.1 percent believe that America should be ethnically and racially homogenous.
Some Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom of California seem to think they can win the White House by behaving more like Trump, by thinking more like Trump, by adopting that dark American carnage vibe. This strikes me as political lunacy. Look at history. Americans lost faith in themselves in the 1970s, after the failures of the Great Society, the retreat from Vietnam, the corruption of Watergate, the impotent presidency of Jimmy Carter, the rising crime and divorce rates, the awful stagflation, the decay of our largest cities. But was this loss of faith permanent? No, Americans elected Ronald Reagan president in 1980. They elected optimism, patriotism and hope. There is still, deep inside the nation’s core, a little engine that knows no rest.
Political Observer.
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