Brooks: GOP produces "leaders of jaw-dropping incompetence" (pssst, it's the philosophy)

[Bucky]

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/13/9521719/david-brooks-republican-party

ya think?

[font size="5"]David Brooks: The Republican Party is producing "leaders of jaw-dropping incompetence"[/font]

by Ezra Klein on October 13, [font size="4"]2015[/font]

David Brooks is fed up with today's Republican Party.

In a blistering New York Times column, Brooks accuses today's Republican Party of betraying the actual tenets of conservatism. "By traditional definitions," he writes, "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible."

Today's Republicans, he continues, have abandoned all that. The GOP is increasingly driven by a faction that "regards the messy business of politics as soiled and impure. Compromise is corruption. Inconvenient facts are ignored. Countrymen with different views are regarded as aliens. Political identity became a sort of ethnic identity, and any compromise was regarded as a blood betrayal."

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Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced. Public figures are prisoners of their own prose styles, and Republicans from Newt Gingrich through Ben Carson have become addicted to a crisis mentality. Civilization was always on the brink of collapse. Every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic. Comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.

This produced a radical mind-set.

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[hankthecrank]

1. Sounds like swamp gas to me

Methane and bullshit

Garbage

[truebluegreen]

2. Oh look: a blind squirrel!

[gratuitous]

3. David Brooks owns no mirrors

I'll decline to provide any traffic to Brooks at the Times web site, but I'll be a shiny nickel, blind, that Brooks does not assign any blame to himself for the deplorable state of the Republican party.

[silvershadow]

4. Not even worth a comment, really. Brooks and Clinton should have hung it up months ago

when the wheels fell of the bus.

[hibbing]

5. hahaha

The parts in bold are funny, far from anything I would use to describe conservatives. Interesting that once again, the elephant in the room of racism is not mentioned by him.


Peace

[Initech]

6. Once again all this can be traced back to Reagan, Nixon, and the Southern Strategy.

Southern Strategy- worst thing to ever happen to this country.

[KG]

7. piss on David Brooks

another delusional neo-con