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from Driftglass again. David Brooks and centrism:
This, according to Mr. Brooks, we should do because otherwise we will all become terrible people:
"You engage fanaticism with love, first, for your own sake. If you succumb to the natural temptation to greet this anger with your own anger, you’ll just spend your days consumed by bitterness and revenge. You’ll be a worse person in all ways."
In Mr. Brooks' telling of history, fascism was defeated with hugs, and the Confederacy was destroyed with trust falls. Because Mr. Brooks -- whose only academic credential in the undergraduate degree in history he scammed from one of America's most prestigious universities -- is once again just full of happy horseshit about how he pretends the world works, and how he wishes history were unfolding.
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