The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”
Host Amna Nawaz asked Brooks about Elon Musk’s Friday visit to the Pentagon, “What has this revealed to you, both the meeting today and also what we have seen so far about the role and the influence of Musk in this presidency?”
Brooks immediately began trashing Musk’s efforts, “To me, it’s revelatory. You get the richest guy in the world cutting off food for the starving children around the world. Like, that’s the essence of what it is. The second thing it is, it’s cruelty and ruthlessness.”
Doubling down, Brooks continued, “And they are…
