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“Why are people’s views of global warming…and other scientific issues strongly
determined by political label?” This is just infuriating. “People’s” views of
global warming are not determined by political label, Mr. Brooks, for heaven’s
sake, unless the “people” are right-wing conservatives. This blurring is David
Brooks’s signature move—he collapses the sins of the right into the sins of
“people,” or the times we live in, which allows him in effect to stroke his
chin reasonably and muse in a morally and intellectually strenuous way about
the moral and intellectual failings of the people these days. He does this
over and over and over, ensuring that despite his genuinely strong
intelligence and education he will have next to nothing actually useful and
illuminating to say about the issues. Nonetheless he maintains his position at
the Times, remains wealthy and influential in promoting the depressingly
common view that if only the extremists of the irrational left and right could
be overridden by reasonable centrists such as him, all would be well again.

But the irrational left simply doesn’t exist in any politically significant
way in our country, while the irrational right is now in charge of all three
branches the Federal Government, having bestowed Donald Trump upon us. It
seems highly likely that Mr. Brooks’ privilege as a member of a largely white-
male elite is one explanation for his otherwise unforgivable blindness to
these facts.

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