David Brooks

1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories. Today I'm releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. 🧵

These diaries are very damning. Fauci comes across as a fame-hungry narcissist who regularly said different things in private about Covid to what he told the world publicly.

Here is who holds 13/27 seats within the DSA: 1. Red Star which explicitly calls itself Marxist-Leninist, seeks to “cohere a vanguard party,” rejects reform of capitalism in favor of its overthrow, and frames anti-imperialism in binary terms. That language they use in their literature sits inside the same broad tradition as Maoism. 2. Reform & Revolution draws on Lenin, the Bolshevik experience, and the need to “smash the capitalist state” and build a workers’ state. 3. Marxist Unity Group speaks of programmatic unity, political independence from capitalist parties, fighting the existing Constitution, and a long-term communist horizon. 4. Springs of Revolution emphasizes revolutionary rupture, mass organizing, and anti-imperialist discipline. All of these groups openly reject the idea that capitalism or the current U.S. constitutional order can be gradually democratized into socialism. That is in line with classical revolutionary Marxism, including the Chinese Communist Party under Mao. Many 20th-century Marxist-Leninist parties, including Mao’s, began with emancipatory rhetoric about workers’ power, democracy of a new type, and ending exploitation. Once they held state power under conditions of civil war, isolation, or extreme scarcity, the actual record was one-party dictatorship, suppression of independent unions and parties, and mass violence justified as necessary to defend the revolution. Just understand where this is all heading.

That's what pluralistic democracy is about. There are 330 million Americans. We don't agree on many things. Where we agree, we are allowed to come together and form organizations to do the things we agree on. That should be free of government interference. 9/16

Conservative brain can be interesting. They start with a deontological premise, that you must always do good, abortion is murder and therefore evil, you cannot have an abortion. They assume liberals use the same moral framework, except in reverse. They think we think that murder is good or even doing evil is better than doing good, so they get very confused and cannot understand how liberals reach the conclusions they do. When conservatives reason like this, it doesn't cross their mind that liberals are not, that we don't look for universal principles or rule-based ethics, and often reach conclusions from a consequentialist framework. Liberals think abortion is permissible because the alternative in a lot of cases is far worse. That's all that is going on. Which a conservative with a very deontological bent cannot see, so they project their own reasoning patterns on liberals and get wacky conclusions.