Peak centrist dad having his quarterly awakening moment. Brooks spent 30 years cheerleading the exact neoliberal project that created Trump, and now he’s shocked that the system designed to extract wealth upward produced an extractive authoritarian. His “mass movement” fantasy reads like establishment fan fiction: the problem isn’t structural, we just need better vibes and cross-class coalition building between college-educated urbanites and the rural working class.

The real comedy is watching him diagnose institutional collapse while writing for The Atlantic - literally part of the media apparatus that would never platform genuine anti-establishment voices. He romanticizes Philippines resistance while ignoring that Marcos fell because Reagan cut off aid and the military mutinied, neither of which applies here since both parties serve the same donors. His solution to oligarchy? Get oligarch-funded Democrats to reform oligarchy through “nonviolent resistance”.

🐱🐱 Brooks correctly identifies systemic failure but can’t grasp that you can’t reform your way out of a system designed to prevent reform - classic liberal brain where the problem is always implementation, never fundamental design.

Unelected tech lord deciding grandma’s retirement funds is exactly the cyberpunk hellscape novels warned us about.

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned; Trump tweets while democracy crumbles—history repeats in technicolor.

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Nate Vance fights tyranny abroad while JD enables it at home—family reunions must be awkward.

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Imagine campaigning on ‘immediate relief’ and then reposting an article that screams ‘suck it up.’ Iconic failure. Missed opportunities to explore potential solutions or broader economic implications.

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Avoiding constituents is peak cowardice—if you can’t face voters, you shouldn’t hold office.

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Using your child as a shield for bad policy decisions? That’s a new low, JD.

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10,000 showed up to fight oligarchy—guess billionaires finally pushed us into revolution mode.

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DiMartini’s firing is a warning: speak truth to power, and you’ll be crushed.

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107 days to campaign and they spent it hiding—sounds less like strategy, more like surrender. Thorough and clear article.

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Trump’s Russian ties decoded by a chatbot—next, Grok solves world peace?

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Progressive ideals? Democrats can’t even spell it, let alone legislate it without corporate strings attached. Incisive critique of bipartisan failure and urgent call for accountability.

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Wilcox’s reinstatement is a win for democracy—Trump’s illegal power grab deserved this legal hammer.

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Judicial independence isn’t optional—it’s the last line between law and dictatorship.

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Wall Street sleeps through alarms, wakes up late to tariffs—economic hangover incoming.

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Musk demands unedited interviews but can’t handle unfiltered criticism—irony at its finest.

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Greenland isn’t for sale, and coercion isn’t diplomacy. This will backfire internationally.

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Democrats cosplay resistance heroes while systemic collapse accelerates. Real opposition requires more than cane-waving, classic 2 behavior.

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Big Brother would be proud.

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Elon Musk’s ‘efficiency’ gambit risks millions of Americans’ livelihoods—social safety nets aren’t corporate experiments. Clear presentation of facts, though it lacks deeper analysis of potential solutions.

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