On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Trump’s behavior “has put the Republicans at a moral disadvantage.” Brooks stated, “To me, one of the — an interesting debate is happening. You could call it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh was “one of the most unpleasant and undignified and depressing spectacles I’ve seen covering in my career.” Brooks said, “I
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that both Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford were “very compelling.” He also stated that there isn’t any hard evidence to determine who is telling the truth.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Trump for his comments on the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria as “a lie where you render nearly 3,000 Americans invisible,” and “almost pathological.” Brooks said, “It
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the drop in President Trump’s approval rating “should be very alarming” to Republicans. Brooks said, “Donald Trump had been sitting around 43 for the longest of times, an incredibly stable
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the process around Supreme Court nominations gets worse every time. He wondered why Republicans won’t just release the documents about nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and criticized the Democrats for turning
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that his takeaway from Bob Woodward’s book and the anonymous New York Times op-ed is that people around the president are trying to do the best they can dealing with “an agent of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the results of Florida gubernatorial primaries by stating that Democratic nominee and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has a “more progressive” policy agenda, and by nominating him, the Democratic Party “is
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Congressman Ron DeSantis either has “some nasty tendencies within himself, or he just doesn’t get out much. And neither is good.” Brooks stated, “I don’t know what’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that in some ways, he is “more offended” by President Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions than the news about Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Brooks stated, “[I]n some ways,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while he doesn’t believe Michael Cohen’s allegations are presidency-altering, “the moral affront is so gigantic.” Brooks said, “I mean, to me, one of the things about — weird things about
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he has a hard time getting worked up over the revocation of former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance. Brooks said, “I mean, he’s politicized something that probably shouldn’t be
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump has been “constantly whipping up that sense of white identity.” Brooks said, “White identity politics has been his calling card for a long, long time, maybe stretching back generations
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the GOP has been struggling in suburban areas and in doing so, “the Republican Party is losing what was the — sort of the enterprising side of that party. And
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discussed the QAnon members showing up at Trump rallies and stated that there aren’t people who can quash conspiracy theories anymore and “a lot of us mainstream journalists have become delegitimized in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it “totally makes sense that Trump admires the cut of Putin’s jib,” and “bullies can be sycophantic toward better bullies.” Brooks stated, “You know, some people think, oh, Trump has —
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he has moved from a 3 to a 5 or 6 on a scale from 1-10 on whether he believes there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt “seems to lack character, have a vicious or violent character.” He added that “character is destiny, I guess except if you’re the Oval Office. Then it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that by calling for the abolition of ICE, some Democrats “are making a political, and also probably a moral miscalculation.” Brooks stated, “[W]hen we see what’s happening to the kids, it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated he doesn’t believe that there will be a “massive overturn” of Roe v. Wade. Brooks said, “I don’t think it’s — the nightmare scenario on either side [the overturn of Roe],
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Trump administration should send a message that “We’re going to enforce the law, but we’re not going to be total monsters.” He added that the problem is this
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we’ve seen immigration policy that is “not treating the people as human beings. It’s treating them as just sort of pawns in some sort of larger protest movement.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the separation of families at the border by stating, “If you take qualities like affection, mercy, charity, compassion, empathy out of an administration, you wind up with policies like this.”
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Trump did “do a good thing” with North Korea by settling tensions, but did so “in the worst possible way” by ignoring North Korea’s human rights abuses. Brooks stated, “I
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s latest tariff announcement by stating the president “just has a mentality that sees the world as me and enemies.” Brooks said, “I think what strikes me is Donald
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued President Trump is pardoning “the extreme right-wing swamp” one person at a time. Brooks stated, “Usually, there’s a process where you decide there’s some injustice, or somebody’s exemplary in some way
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated President Trump “realized that the Mueller investigation is not a bad thing for him, but a good thing for him,” the stories about Mueller have been overplayed, and “we’re stuck in
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Israeli military had months to figure out how to avoid shooting most of the people coming across the fence in Gaza and “took no effort” to do so. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that his views on President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran deal are “very mixed” and President Obama’s argument for the deal has been disproven by time. He further stated that based
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the GOP tax bill is working better than he thought it would and the evidence “seems to be that what the Trump people told us would happen is happening, that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks responded to the Stormy Daniels revelations by stating that the “main fact” is that we’ve reached a point where the president paying a porn star to keep quiet “seems normal.” He also argued
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated former FBI Director James Comey “passes the smell test, by and large.” Brooks also si that the portions of Comey’s book that he has read also pass the smell test. Brooks
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that asking about citizenship on the Census doesn’t seem unusual “In normal times,” but “given the climate, it strikes me as a menacing question and probably a counterproductive one.” Brooks said,
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton’s approach does increase the chances of military action in North Korea and Iran, and that while Bolton “just has a bellicose, old style,” combined
A New York Times column published this week by David Brooks argues that modern America values identity over individual thought.
