As a rule, I don’t read David Brooks. I prefer to read him through Driftglass’s filter, but this morning I glanced at the first few paragraphs (I refuse to link to him). I stopped after getting to this, in which he purports to speak in the voice of an internet “fanatic”:
“I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious, the ones who cancel and call out, the minority of online posters who fill the air with hate…”
What, I wondered, is this “alt-left” of which you speak? Has the both siderist disease seated itself so firmly in your brain that you now feel licensed to make up terms and movements that don’t exist?
I decided then and there to await the Driftglass treatment, and he didn’t disappoint. It really would be a pleasure to watch Brooks wilt if he were ever exposed to a skillful cross examination, rather than the fawning treatment he gets on teevee.
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