A great David Brooks quote

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2. I suppose you missed Brooks' call for a national civic uprising?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html

It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

I get frustrated with the focus on all the things David Brooks had wrong in the past and maybe still does. Same with Liz Cheney and other Republicans who are full-throated opponents of Trump and supporters of democracy. They are on the right side of history at least in this. It's time to remember that the enemy of our enemy is our friend, and not keep bashing them endlessly. It wastes precious time and is demoralizing, imo.