Take This Pill and The World Will Change

 One of the The Nation's headlines today reads:

"The Smug and Vacuous David Brooks Is Perfect for The Atlantic”  

and 

"The former New York Times columnist is a one-man cottage industry of lazy cultural stereotyping."

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It seemed to me that Chris Lehmann was being gratuitously critical of Brooks as he departs his two decade job at the New York Times.

Then, I read Brooks' lengthy goodbye column, and I see where Lehmann is coming from.

Brooks is critical of Trump on moral grounds, and he sees America's current state primarily as spiritual malaise.  Nowhere does he mention the fact that the richest 1% of the country own over 30% of the nation's wealth.

Rather, according to Brooks, an attitude change on both sides of the political spectrum is all that is needed to take us back  to unity and a renewed faith in the American Dream.

My guess: 

Musk is thinking of the Brooks column and laughing all the way to the bank.