When there’s a new Dave Brooks column:
When fascists are in power all they need is for you to prefer them to personal discomfort, and now, by those lights, David Brooks has proved himself to be the good fascist we always knew him to be.
And no I’m not linking to that fascist nonsense.
And no I’m not linking to that fascist nonsense.
Brooks knows Trump is a lawless authoritarian, but all the same he used his platform as he always does: soothing people of privilege by telling them their comfort makes them virtuous—this time in service of positioning healthcare and education as a greater threat than fascism.
