New York Times columnist David Brooks has long been a believer in President Obama’s call to change Washington politics, to stop the bickering and work together in Washington.
During the runup to the 2008 election, Brooks famously wrote, “Run Barack, Run” and entered into a full fledged ‘bromance,’ chronicled by The New Republic’s Gabriel Sherman.
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That’s all in the past now, as Brooks readily admits that he was “a sap.”
The president believes the press corps imposes a false equivalency on American politics. We assign equal blame to both parties for the dysfunctional politics when in reality the Republicans are more rigid and extreme. There’s a lot of truth to that, but at least Republicans respect Americans enough to tell us what they really think. The White House gives moderates little morsels of hope, and then rips them from our mouths. To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used.
