No Fair Remembering Stuff 5: David Brooks Part 4
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to another episode of No Fair Remembering Stuff, the Tuesday edition of |
| 0:04.8 | The Professional Left Podcast, and available wherever you get your podcasts, and at our website, |
| 0:10.7 | pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. There's a Patreon button |
| 0:15.9 | at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at the Professional Left podcast, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. |
| 0:27.5 | And it's not to be Rubio. Right now you have a conflict between |
| 0:55.2 | the conservative, the philosophical conservative wing, which is the National Review crowd, |
| 0:59.5 | and the rogue wing, which is talk radio and Trump. And so it's interesting to see how that |
| 1:04.8 | breaks down. Right now, Trump has the advantage in that because the conservative movement |
| 1:09.2 | is less conservative than it was 10 years ago. |
| 1:11.6 | The financial crisis has hit people hard and they want a government that's on the side of the |
| 1:15.2 | little guy as long as it's not filled the liberal values. So Trump in the short term, but we're |
| 1:18.6 | a public going to start out of this. Do not panic. There are going to be months of this. Wait for Rubio. |
| 1:23.2 | In our previous episode, David Brooks of the New York Times had added two more isms to his |
| 1:28.9 | already long list of isms, which he deployed to explain why the problems of the Republican |
| 1:33.9 | Party don't have anything to do with, you know, Republicans. Palinism was a mere momentary |
| 1:40.7 | derangement, which had now passed, and partyism, the mere existence of political parties, |
| 1:47.0 | was somehow to blame for everything bad. And very soon, he and every other Beltway pundit |
| 1:53.3 | would add one more ism to that lexicon, the biggest of them all, Trumpism. And I wrote about this in |
| 2:00.3 | August of 2016 at Crooks and Liars. The article was |
| 2:04.7 | called, don't you dare call it Trumpism? And this was several months before the 2016 election. |
| 2:10.6 | The media is attempting to separate the Republican Party from Donald Trump. Who voted for him again? |
| 2:18.6 | Have you noticed a number of media outlets calling the Republican campaign for president |
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