Prometheus 6

Until then, there's David Brooks to contend with.

Brooks knows he's dealing with a collective...you know because he keeps making up names for them he thinks is flattering.

In the 1950s, divorce rates were low and jobs were plentiful, but over the next few decades that broke down. The social revolutions of the 1960s and the economic revolution of the information age have emancipated the well-educated but left the Sam’s Club voters feeling insecure.

That's okay. And he finally says what we've been saying in response to HIS apologist ravings over the last seven-plus years.

Conservatives have offered almost nothing. The G.O.P. has lost contact with its own working-class base. This is the intellectual vacuum that “Grand New Party” seeks to fill.

(Grand New Party is the book he's pimping today)

But he also champions this statement:

“What all these ideas, from the sober to the speculative, have in common is a vision of working-class independence — from bosses, from bureaucracy, from entrenched interests of all kinds,” Douthat and Salam write.

...which is absurd on its face (see the title of this little rant). And this use of government

This is not compassionate conservatism (which flattered the mind of the compassionate donor), it’s hard-work conservatism, which uses government to increase the odds that self-discipline and effort will pay off.

...isn't a Conservative one at all.

Finally, I find it brutally hypocritical to talk about using the government at all when you are one of the prime enablers of "Starve the Beast" movement.