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And it's not safe for work. And by the way, you and I were talking today, we realized we're doing a true crime series here, aren't we?

Yeah, this is a true crime podcast. It just happens to be David Brooks as the criminal. We know that from the beginning. So there's no suspense.

None at all. Well, there's some suspense as to where this is all going unless you've lived over the last 20 years, in which case you know right where it's going.

Yeah.

And all of his...

And how bad can it be?

And all of a sudden, even I, as we've been talking through this, didn't realize in toto how bad it was.

But it's so bad.

Yeah.

And all of his enablers, all of his agers and abettors, all the wheelmen and women who give him all the runway he needs, the people who follow him, who emulate his message, who, and his message isn't original.

He just figures out where the Beltway common wisdom is today and articulates it in the New York Times.

So it's always wrong. It's always headed in the wrong direction. And when you read over time,

you know, I got that look from you yesterday as we're going through these notes going,

holy shit. This is what you've been going through the last 17 years. Like, oh my God, this guy is just a

monster. He's a fucking monster.

Yep.

Yes, he is.

He's a monster in plain sight.

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