And, on Monday, they ran a piece co-authored by the execrable Mark Penn for which I can barely summon the words. (In addition to Dowd and Brooks, the NYT ran a “conversation” between Gail Collins and Bret Stephens in which the dreaded W-word came up. They are tossing the term around as a pejorative because conservatives have decided to weaponize it, and because some people in my business function as mynah birds for the rest of the flock. Let’s pause here and remember that neither Bash nor Carville know enough about “woke” or “wokeness” to throw to a cat, to borrow a phrase from Sean O’Faolain.
Then, on Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked the following question of Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner: Are Democrats too woke, Senator?
The Democrats, some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.” Just defund the police lunacy, take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools? People see that, and it's just really have a suppressive effect all across the country. "What went wrong was just stupid wokeness. The chorus opened up when museumpiece James Carville raved about it on TV. Ever since, by two whole points, the outcome of the Virginia governor’s race turned out (in relation to the incumbent president) exactly the same way recent history suggested it would turn out, a lot of people who don’t know what the term means have been throwing it around like a brick to the head. It has become plain here in the shebeen that we have to keep an eye on how the word “woke” is being thrown around in elite pundit circles. What we all need is to hear from Mark Penn.
Brooks seems incapable of noticing that the conservative movement-from which he takes a knee when it becomes too embarrassing even for him-is not now, nor has it ever been interested in unity, unity, unity on anything under the sun. That’s all the way around Robin Hood’s barn to get to the customary weeping about how conservatives like David Brooks-well-compensated even when he isn't double-dipping, and a man of considerable collateral wealth-are shut out of elite cultural institutions. It would stand for racial, economic and ideological integration, and against separatism, criticizing, for example, the way conservatives are often shut out from elite cultural institutions. It would reject ideas and movements that seek to reduce complex humans to their group identities. It would reject racism, the ultimate dehumanizing force, but also reject any act that seeks to control the marketplace of ideas or intimidate those with opposing views. That unity is based on a recognition of the complex humanity of each person - that each person is in the act of creating a meaningful life. Can you guess what WNP is, and how detached from political reality it is? It would instead offer a vision of unity, unity, unity. The man is the Ron Popeil of useless sloganeering. You may recall that, when the previous Republican president fcked things up from here to Baghdad and back, Brooks bailed on him by pitching something called National Greatness Conservatism. Democrats would be wise to accept the fact that they have immense social and cultural power, and accept the responsibilities that entails by adopting what I’d call a Whole Nation Progressivism. This came after David Brooks had unburdened himself on how “The Left” has lost touch with the salt-of-the-earth Americans he so champions when it doesn’t cost him anything in honoraria or book deals. So soon, thanks to all that “chaos and ineptitude,” millions more Americans can read Maureen Dowd and fall out laughing.
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Scranton Joe was supposed to be the sensible, steady one.Īnd just think, the bill that emerged from all that “chaos and ineptitude” includes $65 billion to upgrade internet access and affordability.
Many who were sick of Trump chaos and ineptitude are now sick of Biden chaos and ineptitude. First, we had Maureen Dowd’s column that appeared on the morning after a rather historic infrastructure package passed Congress. News being news, it tends to keep happening, and if you’re not careful, it can turn into a very loud whoopee cushion underneath your work product no matter how carefully you gird it with misplaced Shakespeare. No more high-priced pundits turning their columns in three days early so as to beat the traffic on weekends. The New York Times needs a serious change in philosophy.
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