By Frances Rice
With Indiana primary voters giving Donald Trump a landslide victory, it is even more obvious that the American people are sending a message, loudly and clearly, to the political elites, represented by political pundits such as David Brooks who is excoriated in the below article by Charles Hurt that was published in The Washington Times.
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The Washington Times David Brooks should stay in his little bourgeois strata
By
Charles Hurt
In an election year
where all the experts have been exactly wrong about absolutely everything, it
really is something of a feat to be as spectacularly and enthusiastically wrong
as Mr. Brooks.
This probably should
not come as much of a surprise, given how highly revered the pundit-scribe
is inside the Beltway. He serves as some kind of “Republican voice” for the New York
Times and offers up nerdy commentary for “News Hour” on National People’s
Television.
Mr. Brooks
inducted himself into the Hall of Fame for the blind, deaf and dumb with a
stupid and arrogant column he wrote last week in which he finally realized
that Donald Trump
is leading to become the Republican nominee for president.
Yes, this guy is
supposed to be a political expert. If he were this clueless about baseball,
he would not last 10 minutes as a sports commentator. Yet, in this world,
he is hailed as some kind of genius. But it is what Mr. Brooks wrote
after stating that firm grasp of the obvious that makes him so much more of
a buffoon than his conception of Mr. Trump could
ever be.
The nomination of Mr. Trump, he
said, is a “Joe McCarthy moment” and those supporting him “will be tainted
forever.”
He then rattles off
statistics revealing the hopelessness, desperation and isolation that so many
Americans feel today — and have felt for a long time.
Always gasping to
sound intelligent, Mr.
Brooks terms this national despair “declinism.” Because at this moment in
American history, what we really need is another stupid political pundit
sounding intelligent while completely ignoring the hailstorm of misery all
around him.
Discovering something
amiss with the people, Mr. Brooks
determines it is time to engage the problem.
“Trump’s success
grew out of that pain, but he is not the right response to it,” Mr. Brooks writes.
“The job for the rest of us is to figure out the right response.”
What??? You have just
arrived six months late at the scene of a five-alarm fire caused by a
long-brewing volcanic eruption in which millions of people are drowning in a
sea of liquid fire and you, Mr. Brooks of the New York
Times
editorial department and National People’s Television, are telling the
dog-tired firefighters to step aside — you will handle this.
Really??? And you are
wearing a little plastic children’s fireman Halloween costume and your little
truck has pedals and your hose doesn’t actually carry water, you arrogant
little sniveler.
People are literally
dying, Little Dave. People have hooked themselves on meth and heroin because
they have no jobs. Because they have no work to do. They have no purpose in
life. They have become dependents upon this great Federal Government of yours.
All these social
programs that you espouse to make yourself feel better, all the lying, all the
punditry has become a trap that is destroying lives and destroying
relationships between people, families and their communities.
You mix in with that
the rampant illegal immigration that steals jobs, deflates wages and spawns
crime and you have a broiling powder keg. Oh, yeah, and then call anybody
who is concerned about illegal immigration a “racist” and you can cast aside
any hope of your precious civil discourse.
“I was surprised by Trump’s success
because I’ve slipped into a bad pattern, spending large chunks of my life in
the bourgeois strata — in professional circles with people with similar status
and demographics to my own,” the insufferable gasbag wrote. “It takes an act of
will to rip yourself out of that and go where you feel least comfortable.”
Oh yeah? You mean,
like, what families across America are doing every single day confronting their
sister, their son, their mother in the unholy clutches of addiction? You mean
“least comfortable,” like going to the local church food pantry to get a week’s
worth of canned goods?
Seriously, you don’t
have to even leave the Beltway or Manhattan to see the kind of misery that is
everywhere today.
“But this column is
going to try to do that over the next months and years. We all have some
responsibility to do one activity that leaps across the chasms of segmentation
that afflict this country.”
Whatever. I don’t
know what that means and neither do you, Mr. Brooks.
But don’t flatter
yourself. Yes, you have been a part of the problem for a very long time and
always will be. But America sure doesn’t need your help now. Please,
just stay in your little “bourgeois strata” and leave us alone.
• Charles Hurt can
be reached at charleshurt@live.com.
Follow him on Twitter via @charleshurt.
