Last month, the trade publication Variety was boosting the PBS duo of Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks by describing them as “one progressive and one conservative.” That’s not true at all.
In the upcoming May edition of The Atlantic magazine, Brooks again cast aside his conservative coloring in a harsh 4,500-word epithet of an essay, “Everything We Once Believed In.”
The online headline deck was more ominous: “I Should Have Seen This Coming — When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.”
Isn’t “fringe” an odd word for Donald Trump, someone who not only won the presidency via electoral vote twice but won the popular vote last time out?
Brooks accused Trump of behaving…
