https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/trump-mckinley-populism.html

I’m a bit stunned. Is this really written by David Brooks?

“they thought they could solve the disruptions of industrialization if only they could find the evil conspirators who were responsible for every ill. Their diagnoses were simple-minded, their rhetoric over the top; their proposals, Hofstadter noted, wandered “over the border between reality and impossibility.””