Joe Biden is heaping praise on New York Times columnist David Brooks, talking up what the former vice president calls the writer’s insight into American political life.

At a Manhattan fundraiser Tuesday night Biden offered a reading list to paying guests, including the 2018 book How Democracies Die by Harvard professors Steven Levitzky and Daniel Ziblatt, in which the authors paint President Trump as a de facto authoritarian.

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