David Brooks: The Democrats Are ‘Somewhere in the Left of Che Guevarra’
RUSH EXCERPT:
BROOKS: “It's somewhere to the left of Che Guevara, I guess. As Donald Trump makes it extremely hard to think about supporting somebody like that, I find the Democrats have done an outstanding job of making it hard for a lot of moderates to support anything. Personally, the idea that I could ever support a candidate who was in support of the Green New Deal, that will never happen. That could never happen. The Green New Deal concentrates power in the hands of the Washington elite in a way nothing has done since World War II. It would literally have Washington planners taking over the energy business, taking over the transportation business, so no planes are possible or necessary, taking over health care. It really is a centralization of power in a way we haven't seen and doesn't exist in Scandinavia.It used to be Democrats wanted to shift the tax code, shift the regulations in order to steer the market in a more humane direction, and I get that. And that — being that kind of Democrat, you would be for a carbon tax in order to address global warming. This is not that. This is simply the government taking control of large swaths of the American economy, something I don't think the government is capable of doing.”
