Liberal New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the Democratic Party during an interview on “PBS NewsHour” on Friday, saying that the party is to the left of Marxist Che Guevara.
New York Times columnist David Brooks says Democrats are "somewhere to the left of Che Guevara"
Brooks blasts @AOC's "Green New Deal," says it "concentrates power in the hands of the Washington elites" and is "government taking control of large swaths of the American economy" pic.twitter.com/d9nhvtLR0T
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“Where do you see the Democratic field sort of shaking out in that way?” host Judy Woodruff asked. “And does it — I mean, is it shaking in a direction that helps the party, or not?”
“It’s somewhere to the left of Che Guevara,” Brooks responded.
Brooks then tore into socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” saying that Democrats’ embrace of far-left policies is destroying their party.
“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,” Brooks said. “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.”- READ MORE