This article feels a little disingenuous and seems written by someone who has only heard their friend complain about David Brooks. In his book "The Second Mountain," Brooks goes into his mea culpa moments. He has on more than a few occasions admitted his errors. I would share citations, but it was a library loan and it's on hold.

Those of us who protest against power, aren't we looking for exactly the kind of change of hearts and minds such that Brooks is showing?

Where was he the last 45 years? Making this happen.

Will he be at these protests?

What is this goddamned clownworld timeline we live in where David fucking Brooks is calling for a mass revolt, a literal insurrection, against the pinnacle, ultimate form of what he and his ilk have advocated for and done their level best to make a reality for longer than I've been alive?

I mean... at this point, fuck it, this is good news, we are gonna need as many bodies in the streets and feet on the ground, from as many backgrounds and persuasions of all kinds to have any chance at all of stopping this madness...

But Jesus Christ if this isn't the most 'Dog finally catches car and is disappointed' fucking thing.

The difference between a shithead like this, and any and all sane people, is that sane people could see this unnecessary shitstorm approaching from afar, while these stunted minds only seem to be able to see things only after things smack then in the face.
Fuck him, all his ilk and the greedy, myopic, ignorant goddamned boat they rode one.

“Will someone please clean up this mess I made?”

Fuck you, David.

Well this might be good. In order to achieve regime change and new elections with the protests, you'll need the military on your side. You can never overthrow the government otherwise. So conservative people like this can help.

Even a broken cunt is right twice a day.

REVOLUTION TIME FOLKS LETS GOOOOOO

There are demonstrations this Saturday, David. Hope we see you there.

He finally pulls his head out of the sand after the global economy starts to reroute itself to bypass the US?

How does this asshole think we could avoid situations like this from recurring, should we succeed now? As long as we have billionaires, we will have the conditions for fascism.

A more onion-y title would be something like "Conservative commentator quotes Marx, calls for mass protests and strikes".

The actual title is more just !ironicorsurprisingnews than !nottheonion material imo

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Unless it was changed post-publication, the original is

Conservative NYT Columnist David Brooks Calls for ‘National Civic Uprising’ to Defeat Trumpism – Complete With ‘Mass Rallies, Strikes’

Imo that's actually more onion-y than the changed title

Brooks is probably fairly wealthy. He should put his money where his mouth and start filling some strike funds.

People are products of their culture and the material conditions that they live under. So, we have two choices: we can either take a hands-off, or laissez-faire, approach and allow conditions to change organically and just accept any political or social changes that might come about, or we can take a more direct approach and try to change the conditions that people live under, and the culture, in such a way that will make something like the Trump movement much less likely to emerge. But, the second option probably won't just happen, spontaneously or organically, it would probably require a fairly heavy handed, top down approach. I know many people are quite apprehensive about that, so that approach would likely be quite controversial.

So, what's it going to be? Let things just play out organically and see what happens, and accept that the outcome may or may not be desirable, or try to steer the course of US society more directly and deliberately?

Brooks has never given a damn about abuse of power or fascist rule. He’s just arguing to defend the status quo. He has the moral backbone of a fruit fly.

Was he one of those Brooks brothers from the riot?

Smart guy

However I don't think he is calling for violence

him first.