I get the sense that this is not only the low point of the Trump presidency but the low point of the American presidency ever. Has any president ever been this overmatched by a crisis?
David Brooks
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David Brooks
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Atlantic writer, Yale faculty. Author of The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise, How to Know a Person
- If it comes to Trump vs. Warren, the only plausible choice is Warren. Over the past month Trump has given us fresh reminders of the exceptional ways he corrupts American life. You’re either part of removing that corruption or you are not.
- Biden is best when he speaks from his moral core. Trump doesn’t have one. It’s evident.
- I believe in democracy. I believe in a free press. I believe in open debate. I love it when my newspaper prints pieces I disagree with. It causes me to think.
- When I started covering politics I was struck by how often politicians made physical contact with voters and journalists. It wasn’t about sex. It was about connection. Joe Biden, who emerged in that era, is one of the finest people I’ve ever covered.
- The intellectual decline of the GOP is astonishing, especially when your remember how different it was just 15 or 20 years ago. thebulwark.com/trump-has-brok…
- This convention is targeted to one voter: Donald Trump. The whole convention is to make his lonely soul feel affirmed.
- Instead of spending the past 3 years on Mueller and impeachment suppose Trump opponents had spent the time on an infrastructure bill or early childhood education? More good would have been done.
- What a night. Usually when I’m up this late it’s because I’m listening to NBA Youngboy.
- I only wear New Balance because Nike was a goddess in a Greek culture that practiced slavery.
- I’m the most horrified I’ve been in my career as a political journalist and the most relieved. This election won’t be close. Have faith in the American people!
- Yesterday I had one impression of the maga kids from Kentucky. Now after seeing more videos I have a different more complicated impression. Makes all the hot takes seem silly.
- This has been one of the worst weeks of our collective lives: 100K dead, an economy still collapsing, racism, murder, conspiracy mongering, a president more contemptible by the day. Hang in there. It will get better.
- Beto O’Rourke and John Brennan owe Donald Trump a public apology. If you call someone a traitor and it turns out you lacked the evidence for that charge, then the only decent thing to do is apologize.
