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NYT Columnist Asks, 'What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?'
PJ Media ^ | 3 Aug 2023 | Lincoln Brown

Posted on 08/05/2023 10:16:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan

In an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Wednesday, David Brooks had the headline, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” In it, Brooks struggles with the question of why Trump has a commanding lead over the other GOP hopefuls and why he seems essentially tied with Joe Biden on a national basis. All of this despite the fact that Trump continues to rack up indictments like a grandma on a winning bingo streak at The Villages.

To his credit, Brooks does conduct a fairly exhaustive self-examination. In the piece, he enumerates the ways and provides examples of how America’s elites have lost touch with, well, everyone else. He reflects on how elitism extends to the workplace:

Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out. When I began my journalism career in Chicago in the 1980s, there were still some old crusty working-class guys around the newsroom. Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession. Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: davidbrooks; demagogicparty; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes
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Are We the Baddies?
1 posted on 08/05/2023 10:16:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Ain’t no “what if?” about it.


2 posted on 08/05/2023 10:18:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I 2nd that. “If” don’t even come close. 🤬


3 posted on 08/05/2023 10:21:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Rummyfan

In the words of the immortal Rush, “he may have swerved into the truth”...


4 posted on 08/05/2023 10:22:05 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Rummyfan

If Brooks doesn’t know he’s the bad guy he’s incapable of recognizing that he’s the bad guy. That’s the leftists problem; he is god and when is god wrong?


5 posted on 08/05/2023 10:23:08 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Rummyfan

Wow. Just wow.

Nytimes. Too shocked to say anything else.


6 posted on 08/05/2023 10:25:08 AM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas)
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To: Rummyfan

Wow. Just wow.

Nytimes. Too shocked to say anything else.


7 posted on 08/05/2023 10:25:11 AM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas)
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To: TalBlack

He will be crying to satan “I should not be here. There’s been a mistake....”.


9 posted on 08/05/2023 10:26:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Rummyfan

David. You are a groupthinking dolt, a moron from the moronosphere. You were raised in a retardary.

You’re filthy. Nothing about you is good. Your a trained seal.

Those of us in the audience watching you prostitute yourself for herring are not amused beause your fking with our collective nut.


10 posted on 08/05/2023 10:30:29 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: Rummyfan

They already know they’re the bad guys


11 posted on 08/05/2023 10:31:34 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Rummyfan

Here’s the thing: no one cares! Think about it. Would you want to be around a guy like that? ‘Cause he’s of limited value to me and suckin’-up my oxygen!


12 posted on 08/05/2023 10:57:14 AM PDT by old school
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To: MtnClimber

“…I should not be here. There’s been a mistake....”.“

I once googled the last words of prominent people. Included was a satanist whos last words on his deathbed were “Wait…something’s wrong…”


13 posted on 08/05/2023 10:58:00 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yesterday I was watching a program on Fox, they were discussing a NYT article talking about the language of the elite. The author was indicating how people in the media use “elite language” or “redefine words,” and they have gone sooo far out of the mainstream that THEY are out of touch with the blue collar class.

NY Times columnist leaves readers stunned
https://youtu.be/JwrySb1IlnU

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‘Outnumbered’ panel reacts to New York Times columnist’s comments on the elite class and said journalism is now ‘elite-dominated


14 posted on 08/05/2023 10:58:53 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: MarMema

Don’t be too shocked, the article sort of comes off as quite a back-handed gloved slap in the face to the bourgeoisie.


15 posted on 08/05/2023 11:00:41 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: Rummyfan

I have advanced access to the text of Trumps inaugeration speech scheduled for 1/20/2025. In its entirety it reads as follows,

“Paybacks a bitch”


16 posted on 08/05/2023 11:07:26 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: EBH

I don’t understand why people are surprised or think this is some break from past behavior. Brooks has been saying the same thing for years. His book “Bobos in Paradise” was published in the year 2000.


17 posted on 08/05/2023 11:31:09 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Rummyfan; lightman; Navy Patriot

I’m a graduate of two “elite” universities (MIT and Harvard).

But I REFUSE to read the NYT (which is always trying to TRAP me into subscribing to them), support Trump, and love the Holy Triune God!!!!

Hint to the NYT—stop trying to trap people into subscribing! You’ll get along with people better!!!

And I imagine that many of the more “techy” MIT graduates—REAL engineers, not computer science—secretly despise the NYT too!!!! (I’m a biologist, by the way.)


18 posted on 08/05/2023 11:35:00 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Rummyfan

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19 posted on 08/05/2023 11:36:38 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: All

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20 posted on 08/05/2023 12:02:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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