I’ve always considered David Brooks the Liberal’s Conservative. He seems reasonable; he’s not angry. I assume the Mad Hatters consider him a socialist.

ThinkProgress » David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: ‘If You Offered Them 99-1, They’d Say No’

Brooks: “we’ve substituted governance for brokerism, for rigidity that Ronald Regan didn’t have.

And to me, this rigidity comes from this polarizing world view that they’re a bunch of socialists over there. You know, again, I’ve spent a lot of time with the president. I’ve spent a lot of time with the people around him. They’re liberals! … But they’re not idiots. And they’re not Europeans, and they don’t want to be a European welfare state. … It’s American liberalism, and it’s not inflexible.”

ThinkProgress » David Brooks Slams GOP Obstructionism: ‘If You Offered Them 99-1, They’d Say No’

I think whatever flexibility the Left possess is regarded as despicable weakness by the Radical Wrong. And many on the Left are tired of being bullied. But we don’t waive our guns in their faces; we just say, Fuck You All.