David Brooks vs. George Will

In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims. (46 years after it happened)
America has no problem confronting unpleasant facts about its past
In 2011, here by the dock where the exclusions began, this island’s memorial was opened. (69 years after it happened)
America has no problem confronting unpleasant facts about its past
In 2018, the Supreme Court repudiated its 1944 decision as “gravely wrong the day it was decided” and “overruled in the court of history.” (76 years after it happened)
America has no problem confronting unpleasant facts about its past

Americans are great at confronting unpleasant facts - just give them 50 to 75 years so that most of the people involved with unpleasant facts have died

At the beginning of this year I read a book about the largest mass murder in Oregon history, perpetrated against a group of Chinese gold miners in 1887 in the remote northeast reaches of the state. An investigation was made. A trial was held. No one was ever convicted.

The author began researching this book in 2003, 116 years later. There are still many descendants of the people who were involved in the case living in the area. When he tried to interview them they dummied up, evaded him, hid old county records from him, told him to 'let sleeping dogs lie', and generally tried to discourage him.

Nope, America has no problem confronting unpleasant facts about its past.

give it a couple more generations. give it til 200 years. i know americans - they will confront this

Incredible stuff from David Brooks: If America had to choose between a proto-authoritarian and someone indistinguishable from a centrist European politician, we would have to break the glass and support an obvious grift to separate rich people from their money pic.twitter.com/UkTQSa8awb

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 2, 2022

This is just Brooks giving an ill-disguised boost to what's left of the Bush-family wing of the GOP in their quixotic quest to take back control of the party, rather than submit to the reality that you can't do that when at best only 20% of GOP voters will vote for your 'principled' corporate stooges if Trump or a Trumpist loon is on the primary ballot whom they can vote for.

all of that is standard brooks. the more notable thing was where he directly compared, on one hand, the possibility of bernie sanders winning the democratic primary and then having to win the general election before facing a 50-50 senate, and on the other, the open pit corruption of donald trump (which, in brooks' telling gets reduced to "morally unacceptable to millions"), and then sympathizes with those who would find both sides intolerable

the old guard GOP who view themselves as the most respectable, moderate and sensible people in the USA, and the best and most able to lead the entire world, have been willfully blind to the fact that since 1968 they have deliberately bound themselves to the worst-educated, most racist, and religiously fanatical segments of the population in order to gain and keep power. this blindness is now incurable. they are lost souls howling in a wilderness of their own making.

"We didn't think the tiger would eat OUR faces," lamented the old guard of the Face Eating Tiger Party.

I'm interested in how he conceives of the right's problem as morality and the left's problem as ideology does he have a whole theory about this or is just brainfarting it out. actually I'm not that interested

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also, does anyone know what year this photo is from

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Shortly after Harding's election.

right after rogaine was invented

After the infield fly rule was introduced

i'd guess it's probably from around the time j crew became a company