David Brooks

It's about power.

And it's about who has more force.

And so if we're going to get over Trumpism or the AFD or Le Pen, we need a set of ideals that can hold society together and create some social trust.

And we need ideals that have some roots.

And this is the new conservatives we're good about in universal values.

It's not just my kind.

Like through all through much of human history, my kind of people are the kind of people I care about.

I don't care about the other kind.

But it was a great achievement of civilization to say, no, I care about all people, maybe not all equally.

But there are certain ideas that apply to everybody, ideas of dignity, democracy and kindness.

And that was an achievement.

And so I think the neoconservatives were inheritors, maybe more conservative than not, some not.

But they were the inheritors of that idea.

And they caused us to see politics and see our national culture through the lens of either a shared moral order or a lack of one.

Yeah, I guess I would not be for mass defenestrations.

So first, I think the problem with the Biden administration, one of them, was that he said correctly, this is a battle for the soul of America.

He had no idea how to think about that.

And he should have read more neoconservative books because they would have said, here's the soul of America.

Here's how it's being destroyed here.

You can how you can restore it.