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9 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This, from David Brooks' much-ballyhooed essay on conservatism, is absolutely absurd.
1. Statism is deeply related to social decay. To posit a dichotomy between the two problems is to absolutely misapprehend the nature of conservatism, to botch the relationship between community and liberty.
2. If you are deeply concerned about social decay, positing that the Democratic Party is the solution is patently insane. That party currently denies basic biological reality, promotes racial essentialism, destroys national unity by undermining our history and philosophy...
and uses totalitarian administrative power to cram all of this down.

3. Downplaying the impact of the "progressive wing" on Democratic politics is absurd. Ten years ago, Bernie was a joke. Now he's writing the Biden administration's policies.
In conclusion, it is incredible how delusional this column is. Brooks' description of American conservatism itself is largely correct. His application of it to modern politics isn't just myopic, it's entirely blind. And it's blind because Donald Trump has blinded him.

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