Wayward Landlubber

                 DAVID BROOKS IS HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS David Brooks has long been a New York times columnist. During all of that time, with the exception of recently, with the first Trump administration, Columnist Brooks has been a happy right wing polemicist. He is no longer happy. Not with his Republican party. Not with Trump, not with the quality of thought on display in Republican polemics today. One Whitehouse staffer actually said that, “we are building the rocket as we launch it.” Irony is lost on the Republican party. It is not lost on David Brooks and it must have him chewing antacids like chocolate kisses. Mr. Brooks now sees himself as a Democratic party centrist. He is like the hiker who sits on a nest of ants, surrounded by poison oak, with other unseen dangers awaiting, unsure where to go next. I’m sorry for him. Like John McCain in the 1990s, he has watched his party move too rapidly towards respect for dictatorship. Or in...