During the election campaign, David Brooks encouraged Obama to come up with some big ideas for moving the country forward. He believed that Romney was more likely than Obama to come up with the big ideas that we needed. Now that the election is over, and the man with "small ideas" won the presidency, Brooks has changed his tune. The time for big ideas is over. The best thing that government can do over the next four years is to learn how to crawl. Government should focus on small changes that Republicans and Democrats can agree upon. Perhaps they can recover the lost art of governing in the process.
Brooks does not believe the Democrats will decide that it time to learn how to crawl. He is worried that they will become predators, and attempt to finish the job of destroying his weakened political party. It is time for Democrats to take pity on the GOP and keep it from self-destructing.
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