David Brooks, a “conservative” columnist for The New York Times, famously reminisced about how he knew Barack Obama would become President of the United States right after he was elected Senator from Illinois. He even knew that Barack Obama would be a good president.
What gave him this semi-prescient insight? (He was half right–Obama did become president, but was an awful one).
I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pants, and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.
After meeting Obama and being blown away by his sartorial splendor, Brooks urged Obama to run for president in a New York Times column. He was just so dreamy.
Donald Trump is decidedly not dreamy in a way that people of Brook’s (or my) class could possibly respond…
