He is ostensibly attacking anti statist, actually nonstatist, trends in his own party, which hold up the banner of principles of freedom of the individual and imaginative and creative entrepreneurship against ostensible socialism, and against any noticeable government whatever (Ryan and Brooks);
(I guess they would still want a strong military (maybe entrepreneurial, nimble team players), even though no other big agency left standing? Maybe Big VA for wounded, etc.),
even while David Brooks nevertheless somehow claims unbounded respect for these same authors; it is a not even clever and ill concealed species of plain hypocrisy;
in fact his, and their, views are so close, it really doesn't matter much, and also those of none other than The Maverick Executive, a time honored icon regaled repeatedly on these pages, along with Robert Macaire, the Maverick's ancestor in French satire.
Ideologically, Brooks, like almost everyone else over here, is lost at sea in a stultifera navis looking for the mainland, a three hour tour, but turns out, entre chien et loup, to be Gilligan's Island.
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