This morning’s column by David Brooks is a dead-on accurate description of what has happened to the GOP.
I was going to excerpt a paragraph, but I couldn’t decide which one, because Brooks goes from pointed observation to perfect analogy and back. (He notes that the primaries haven’t been about policy differences; rather, they’ve been a “series of heresy trials.”)
David Brooks is exactly the sort of thoughtful conservative who used to exemplify the Republican Party, back when I was an active member of the GOP. Now–next to the raging troglodytes and the culture warriors and the know-nothings who want to keep kids out of college and repeal the Enlightenment–he is an anachronism.
He has a lot of company.
Read the column. And weep.
Works on the other side too. Been called a DINO more than once…
KurtL: And then some of us get SOUR tacked on to the end of that!
Well, there’s certainly that as well.