One thing Brooks sort of got it right is this -
"Trump is getting Trumpier, and the administration is getting Trumpier," Brooks said. "in the beginning, he was sort of on the learning curve of the presidency, but he’s got it mastered, and so he doesn’t need all these people who are telling him no all the time."
In the beginning president Trump had to rely on some of those DC Insiders who knew the ropes, and these people DID give bad advices thinking they are the true power running the show.
Back at Belmont Club during the election, we've discussed that candidate Trump was a human wrecking ball, elected to smash through existing bureaucracies and un-elected bureaucrats. Brooks doesn't know sh!t about Trump supporters, but Trump supporters know why and what they elected him to do.
Apparently the self-proclaimed "conservative" Brooks is still mesmerized by 'forms and/or styles' like the creased pants and soaring flowery speeches.
As if Brooks ever knew anything about Trump or his supporters. Another fake media Repub who has never voted for a Repub.
"It just sort of drifts by them unnoticed," Brooks observed. <<<
Again, this showed (to some degree) the limit of such New York-DC talking circus, no matter how much they screeched 24/7.
Au contraire. We’re cheering the hirings and firings. To us, they are indications that President Trump is making headway in the goal to drain the swamp and replace the creatures with true patriots.
Perhaps Brooks should try spending some time with Trump supporters and trying to understand what we see going on in the country, our frustration with the corrupt DC establishment, and our ideas for what we want done to fix the swamp. If he understood that, he wouldn’t be asking why Trump is still at 90% support. Instead, he’d be wondering why the support is so low.
>>”They have tuned it out,” he said of the Trump supporter. “They support the administration. They like the big things about it, the tax bill, the deregulation, that kind of thing. And I always ask them, what about this, what about this, the things we frankly talk about a lot every week.”
>>”It just sort of drifts by them unnoticed,” Brooks observed. “And so if you want to know why he’s still got 90 percent approval roughly among Republicans, I think that’s the answer. A lot of things that would cause most people to shake their heads.
>>He said what Trump does just doesn’t “rise to the level of consciousness” of a Trump supporter.
As usual, they don’t understand us. The Left sees government as the center of all life. It gives and takes, produces, and destroys. So, they anxiously watch everything.
We see government as a fence to keep bad things away. If we are satisfied that it does that, then WE go back to our function—which is to give and take, produce and destroy. Trump is doing the work we sent him to the White House to do, so we can relax and watch important things.
So Brooks has been drinking the Kool Aide and thinking that political orientation is an arbitrary act of will, like deciding which washroom you are going to use. Brooks is as much a conservative as Caitlin is a .... well, I don't want to offend Brooks's PC views.
More to the point, Trump is anti-system. That was the point of electing him, and why should he use the apparatus that got us into the mess - which Brooks spends no time lamenting - that we are in.
That is because, apparently, Brooks, a NY and NYSlimes "Conservative" thinks there is nothing wrong with making a packet on daddy Biden's name while selling a key defense capability out to the Chinese. Or sending a demarche when Kim sets of a nuke and threatens the left coast.
And that vast white house apparatus [David, David - that vast apparatus isn't actually in the WH, the old and new executive office buildings] has been stabbing Trump - and the country - in the back at every turn, except that Kelly seems to have shut down all of that nonsense.
David, what really gauls me is not your views - who cares what you say - but the fraud, that you and others pass this off as the view of "reasonable" conservatives. I think that most reasonable of all conservatives and your first employer, WFB, should rise from the grave and punch you in the nose like he threatened to do to Noam Chomsky.
The media is the boy who cried wolf.
So there are many of us who tuned out. Tuned out of listening to anything they have to say.
So, yes, we tune out. Die media. Die.
Brooks is the character who thought the crease in Obama’s trousers was worth space in one of his columns. That’s the sort of personal navel gazing and obsession with trivialities that seem to guide his assessment of Trump supporters, also.
It’s much simpler than that, David. Trump supporters believe that his is right about most all the critical issues, and they believe that the Dims and GOPe are wrong about most all the critical issues.
So, maybe Brooks can figure out where to shove his list of “what about” questions, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
In other words, Brooks knows we are all brain dead and deplorable.
Waaaaaaa
Fast and Furious
Muslim Brotherhood
Benghazi
Billions in umarked cash for Iran
Weaponized IRS and EPA
FUDB
I could not watch that. I'd shoot my TV.
Well, you need to remember that Brooks is a part of that human bureaucracy that the Trump human wrecking ball has promised to knock down.
Brooks is just another brick in the democrat, deep state, news media haunted house of DC that needs smashing.
So, yes, I could not care less about what Trump is tweeting, or what porn star they’ve dug up to accuse him from “Sex is just about private business” from decades ago, as long as he destroys THEM.
THEY declared war on us years ago. Us bitter clingers, flyover folks, deplorable rednecks, whatever—we will NOT go away and let the self-described elitist betters rule us.
Because it is “chaos” to the swamp, not to the man draining it.
Just because you want a swingin' pair doesn't mean you got 'em.
David Brooks is one of the biggest a$$wipes ever to sit in front of a television camera. I’m constantly amazed that he draws a paycheck for spouting the crap that spews from his mouth.
If Brooks is a conservative, then Pamela Anderson is a virgin.
Mr. Brooks and Mr. Shields:
We haven’t tuned Trump out.
We have tuned you out.
Sincerely,
Most people outside of the US urban mess
Brooks is not even close to being a Conservative.
The media is upset that we don’t accept that Trump is who they say he is. Who are you going to believe, the MSM or your own lyin’ eyes?
Brooks is just another future lamp post decoration as far as I am concerned.