Evidently long-time windbag and vainglorious waste of space David Brooks got another piece published in The NY Times. You can’t read it without paying, and it’s almost certainly not worth it. But it does have a good title (which Brooks almost certainly didn’t come up with): We Deserve Pete Hegseth.
Mitch Wagner expanded on it a bit: “The U.S. is not a serious country, so we should have a talk-show host as Secretary of Defense. We’ll have a reality TV host as President in four days.“
I hadn’t thought about that before, but it makes some sense; a lot of what the US does as a nation and a polity is not “serious,” in the sense of being the considered outcome of rational thought and discussion. For various historical reasons the US is incredibly, insanely, atrociously powerful in the world, so those things it does tend to have considerable effects. But serious? Yeah, probably not. We continue to amuse ourselves to death.
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