The Republican Party is in real trouble when its most respected opinion maker turns his guns against it. David Brooks has never liked Donald Trump but his efforts to repeal Obamacare have put his incompetence and self interest on full display during his efforts to "make a deal" on healthcare reform. Trump's campaign was based upon a false premise. He argued that an outsider was needed to replace the elites in Washington who were not responsive to the people. Brooks used the healthcare bill to show that the new elite in Washington is worse than the old elite. The healthcare bill serves the interests of the new elite and especially the purely political motivations of Donald Trump. It takes something valuable away from the populists who supported Donald Trump in order to give a huge tax break to the super rich. Donald Trump is described as a marketeer who understands nothing about the product he is selling, and the Republican Congress has happily become his tool.
David Brooks has used the GOP healthcare debacle to show how Trump is destroying the GOP in order to satisfy an unbounded ego. He has turned the party's worse instincts into an instrument of self destruction. During the Vietnam war Walter Cronkite, who was America's most popular TV news host, turned against the war. President Johnson told his supporters that he lost the war when he lost Cronkite's support. Hopefully, David Brooks will help his friends in Washington to reject the virus that has infected the Republican Party. Even better, Brooks may help many who voted for Trump to have a better perception of the monster they helped to create.
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