David Brooks Quotes
This is a Republican Party that does not see optimism anywhere in the world. All they see is death and threats.
The Republican Party at the time was in the midst of a takover by Donald Trump, the nativists and teh Tea Party. Their world view and their view of the proper role the U. S. in teh word, was almost diametically opposite to that of the Republican Party of the previous 120 years and still held by many of the elected Republican Office holders where only a few would express their real view for fear of a primary election challange from the right or losing the support of the Trump voters which might lead to their defeat by Democrats.
David Brooks, PBS Evening News, February 3, 2017
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The Republicans had been badly beaten in the 2012 Presidential Election. Many attributed the loss to the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the Republican ideas which had become more and more conservative in recent decades. Others, like Rubio, wanted to maintain the existing ideas which were very different from the Republican ideas earlier when they won more elections.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
Lecture, FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, June 24, 2006
The British Conservative Party was attacking the Liberal government for not dealing with the threat of German air power in the form of Zeppelins flying to England. The Germans were outraged at such freedom of the press at their expense. See {609907}.
David Brooks is a conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He has worked as a film critic for The Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek, and The Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on NPR and the PBS NewsHour.
