The Silliest Thing Ever Written?

TheWeeklyStandard?

NeverHeardOfItVille

From America's number one conservative public intellectual...

Or some such NYT/PBS/AtlanticMonthly-type thing:

..(P)erhaps the most important belief that the neoconservatives can impart to us is that the American dream is real. The original neocons, the sons and daughters of immigrants, aspired to make it in America and contribute to their adopted home. If libertarians oriented their politics around freedom, and progressives oriented their politics around equality, the neocons tended to orient theirs around social mobility. They wanted to create a world in which poor boys and girls like themselves could rise and succeed. They understood that this ascent required not just economic opportunity, but also the right values...

David Brooks, December 9, 2025

Now, regardless the veracity of the claim regarding the most important imparted 'belief' of the Neocons, it is not clearly stated anywhere in the fine piece quoted above how, exactly, our Mr. Brooks thinks replacing the concept of making America great again with the concept of an America once again dreaming will be an antidote to Trumpism.

Then again, perhaps we should not expect any kind of real, actual thinking from the very same super-fine public conservative who once did his best, way back in to 2016, to calm the qualms of Republican and Democratic US'ians alike by telling them that rather than Mr. Trump it was for sure  'gonna be Rubio'.

Sheesh.


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Subheader?...In case you missed it (or, more likely, have forgotten), the always money losing den of neanderconnish intellectualism called the Weekly Standard was once our Mr. Brooks employer.



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