New York Times columnist David Brooks calls for national ‘uprising’ against Trump

David Brooks mans the barricades

Yesterday, in his New York Times column, David Brooks called for a mass uprising against Donald Trump. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, much less read. But this is 2025, and with Trump on a rampage, things are getting very weird indeed.  Brooks, a former senior editor at the Weekly Standard, among other things, is pretty much center-right, and his columns usually maintain a certain smug vapidity. He seems to love jabbing at anyth…

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You don’t get it? And you call yourself a nerd? Fine, here.Somebody must have snuck into David Brooks’s home and left Tracy Chapman’s first album on autorepeat, because three months of Donald Trump’s second term have that icon of staid, muddleheaded center-right “moderation” Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution. In his New York Times column yesterday (gift link … Or Temba, his arms wide link), Brooks makes the case that Trump and Trumpism threaten all the…

New York Times columnist David Brooks calls for national ‘uprising’ against Trump

"It's time for a comprehensive national civic uprising," said Brooks.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks calls for national 'uprising' against Trump

"It's time for a comprehensive national civic uprising," said Brooks. Brooks outlined a strategy to mobilize Americans in opposition to "Trumpism," encouraging them to use tactics similar to those seen in revolutionary communist movements. As for the definition of "Trumpism," Brooks said that it…