The Audacity of Hopelessness

Ever since “Fightin’” Billy Kristol arrived on the NY Times op-ed page I have grown more and more likely to read David Brooks. Yes, I used to call him Babbling Brooks. Yes, I can occasionally be seen “Newman-from-Seinfeld” style walking around saying “Brooks!”

Nevertheless, Brooks nails it in today’s column. With Hillary’s campaign dead in the trenches she soldiers on, surrogates spewing half-truths and Ickesian logic all the way.

As Brooks says: “She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.”