On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that there is “a giant gap between what a lot of Democrats want to talk about and what the whole rest of the country wants to talk about.” Because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “turned out to be 100% right” about inflation while “other Democrats, turned out to be 100% wrong.” And that you can argue that Manchin
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections will be decided based on economic issues unless there is some dramatic change in the economy and that voters tend to be more in the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that even a ban on future purchases of guns would not reduce the number of guns in America and that reducing the number of guns in America would require something akin
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the regulatory authority of the EPA by stating that he believes there’s a “sound principle” that as much policy as possible should be
On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that the 2022 midterm elections are ultimately going to be about the state of the economy and not abortion. Brooks stated that the lasting electoral impact of the court’s
During Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks elaborated on his criticisms of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee, which he had suggested in a recent Times column as being too political.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that there should be a distinction between “defensive gun use,” like people using firearms for self-defense and the “offensive use” of firearms for murder and that “a lot of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that regulations on firearms such as assault weapons bans and other kinds of regulations have been shown by research to have an “underwhelming” effectiveness “in actually preventing violence and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said it’s possible to persuade some people by rephrasing gun control as “gun regulation. Like, we have driving regulation, we have cars, and we regulate the cars.” And stated that
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it would be a good thing if the Supreme Court ignored public opinion on Roe v. Wade in coming to a decision on abortion because the Supreme Court’s
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that in an ideal world, if the abortion issue is put to state legislatures, “we would wind up where Europe is” on abortion “where they say, there are strong
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Roe v. Wade was always a “fragile” ruling and pointed out that former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed similar concerns about the decision back in 1992.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats are facing poor poll numbers because “the whole zeitgeist of the country has deteriorated over the last year. And I would say it’s been a threat of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that even though China’s new security deal with the Solomon Islands shows “China’s on the move.” The Biden administration deserves credit for being “very focused on China.” He also
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Western Europe is not just following the U.S.” in pushing back against Russian aggression, and “in many important ways, they’re leading the way.” Brooks said, “Well, the U.S.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while there is inflation taking place everywhere in the world, America’s inflation numbers are “significantly higher” than the numbers in most of the other comparable countries and this
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the number of people trying to come to the U.S. is “probably beyond our capacity to absorb all the people who want to come.” And the current numbers
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases “never” work and he is “guardedly skeptical” that President Joe Biden’s plan to release from the SPR “is going to do much” to lower
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson by stating that there are some “Republican senators who are not really senators. They’re cable TV
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that President Joe Biden’s poor approval numbers on his handling of Ukraine are a reflection of partisanship and “we’re just not as resilient a country as we were when you could
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he thinks increased coronavirus funding is needed, “the Republicans are right to make that point that we need to pay for this money.” Because deficit spending fuels
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “for the last few years, has been pretty much right on Ukraine and Russia” and has “been very aggressive.” And noted that Republicans have
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the Russian military is likely to achieve some very “disheartening successes over the next days and weeks.” But, despite this, “faith has been restored” “in the leadership of
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Joe Biden has done a good job of handling the crisis in Ukraine, despite the “weak” sanctions that are due to Europe and the U.S. relying on Russian energy and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “we’d be looking at a very difficult and very troubling” scenario if former President Donald Trump was still the president during the current situation with Russia and Ukraine.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the school board recalls in San Francisco “should be a five-alarm fire” to Democrats, who have gotten on the wrong side of the major issues of education and crime.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the CDC and health officials are primarily tasked with health, but governors have to balance “the overall flourishing of their communities.” And that in areas where Omicron has
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that there is “an ugly, awful” history in America of racial essentialism, society “is racial essentializing more and more these days,” and President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that while he agrees with the idea of President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, “I’m a little uncomfortable with
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that there is a perception that President Joe Biden has gone too far left and is out of touch with issues people in the center care about like inflation, coronavirus, and
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that President Joe Biden’s problem with both voting legislation and the reconciliation bill is that Biden “started at the left and went centrist.” Brooks said, “Now, in retrospect, as I look
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks criticized President Joe Biden for comparing Georgia election law to Jim Crow by stating that while he doesn’t like Georgia’s law, there are some areas where Georgia makes voting easier than it
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that President Joe Biden does not have good enough approval ratings for Democrats to keep their majorities in 2022 or get re-elected in 2024, “on the basis of his
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that in 2022, he is optimistic for a summer “where we learn to live and breathe again,” and live with the coronavirus. Brooks said that he hoped the summer of 2021
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he’s worried about trouble abroad in 2022, even though we’ve “had an easy time in foreign policy over the last few years, and we’ve been blessed by not having major
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the White House’s response on coronavirus testing has been “too little, too late” and they “missed a couple of months where we could have been, in theory, ramping up
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the Biden administration has “created this turbocharged economy,” which does have the bad side of inflation, but despite the inflation issue, the Biden administration is “right to try
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Democrats “were right to try to be FDR, try to do something big” with the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. Brooks said that if the new inflation numbers in January
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has been “utterly consistent” in response to repeated questions on his position on the Build Back Better reconciliation bill and that getting the bill passed would have been