There are undoubtedly parts of any Donald Trump presidency that are unique to him, but there are also parts that are continuous with other presidents, and one problem the media has is that they freak out over both. New York Times columnist David Brooks did precisely that on Friday’s PBS News Hour as he gave a factually-challenged retort to Trump’s speech in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where he expressed his Middle East policy would be guided by pragmatism and not high-minded idealism or moral lecturing.
Brooks lamented, “That was a speech in which he defined his foreign policy. And he basically — all of American history, at least since postwar, is like, we care about democracy. We don’t like it if you’re throwing people off roofs. Like, we don’t like it if you’re murdering journalists. Like, we don’t like that stuff. And that was partly realpolitik,…
