David Brooks is the contemporary Whittaker Chambers. He is anti-Leftist but not anti-Left. He believes in his soul the moral and secular supremacy of socialist dogma as he “fights” it's promulgation.
Both Chambers and Brooks would say:
“I love communism—it's those damn communists I can't stand.”
So he lectures Republicans on how to win and be better Leftists than the losers.
Announcing the Best Election Night Performance Award in the category of:
"Neos Know Nothing About The 2008 Republican Election Disaster."
Billy Kristol (pukeneo chief, McCain campaign mastermind, Fox talking head).
Kristol acceptance speech: "Thank you very much. But I could not have done it without the help of all the neos--David Frum, Michael Gerson, David Brooks, Richard Perle.....and my Dearest Departed Daddy."
"Sniffle---my Dearest Daddy (who was Giuliani's foreign policy advisor) wrote:
"The historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism is.....to convert the
Republican Party and American conservatism in general, against their
respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to
governing a modern democracy."
"Sob."
"I especially want to thank punkneo Douglas Feith for faking documents on his
home computer so we punkneos could dupe our lapdog, President Bush."
"Without Doug we would not have been able to transfer trillions of US dollars
into the Mideast, into the pockets of war profiteers, which enabled Richard Perle
to startup an oil business in Iraq with his cut."
Kristol smirked: "Making Iraq safe for Perle's oil business with US tax dollars was truly a noble punkneo effort."
David Brooks is the contemporary Whittaker Chambers. He is anti-Leftist but not anti-Left. He believes in his soul the moral and secular supremacy of socialist dogma as he “fights” it's promulgation.Um...perhaps you might to brush up a bit more on Whitaker Chambers. I have read his autobiography ("Witness"), biography, and many of his articles and I can assure you he was most definitely anti-left.
David Brooks is the contemporary Whittaker Chambers. He is anti-Leftist but not anti-Left. He believes in his soul the moral and secular supremacy of socialist dogma as he “fights” it's promulgation. Both Chambers and Brooks would say: “I love communism—it's those damn communists I can't stand.”
Is that really what Chambers would have said?
It looks to me like Chambers hated communism (after he left it behind) and thought it evil but feared that communism would win anyway because the world is an evil place.
Like a lot of anti-Communists of his generation Whittaker Chambers tolerated a role for government that libertarian purists would condemn.
That wasn't because he loved communism. It was because he thought laissez-faire would encourage Communist movements.
He might have been wrong (was he really, though?), but Chambers certainly did not believe communism was morally superior to Christianity.