During the Biden era’s final installment of Brooks and Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart sought to rebut New York Times columnist David Brooks’s assertion that Donald Trump’s election shows Joe Biden failed to protect democracy. Instead, Capehart argued it was the voters who “gave up on democracy” and wanted to “try this authoritarianism.”
Brooks had been making a decent point on how Biden had omitted that most billionaires support Democrats during his speech about how Trump has formed an “oligarchy.” However, he then moved onto what he considered Biden’s legacy, “The thing about Biden is, we go around the country, we have followed him for decades now. He’s done a wonderful job over the course of his career, just a wonderful job. And I go around the country in New York State or Ohio, and…
