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David Brooks, who admires that elitist centralizer Alexander Hamilton, has discovered that he only likes elitist centralizing when it's the economic elite pursuing its economic interests, rather than a scientific elite pursuing evidence-based policy.
FWIW, here's an interesting Brooks piece from 2007 (feels like a century ago), lauding then-candidate Hillary Clinton for her pro-middle class economic policy proposals. He chided Republicans for having no ideas of their own. nytimes.com/2007/10/12/opi…
Fast forward 12 years and the Republicans still don't have any policy ideas about fostering greater economic opportunity, but now that the Dems have some, Brooks is quick to brand them as elitist, when the whole goal is to break down the power of the economic elite.
I get that Brooks the Dems have the wrong centralizing policies, that it's more of a command economy model that's not attentive enough to markets. Fine, let's have that argument. But today's piece doesn't feel like engagement, it feels like dismissal.
Brooks *thinks* the Dems have the wrong policies...
