Is David Brooks Imitating Lenin the Funniest New York Times Column Ever?

New York Times columnist David Brooks, calling for a mass civic uprising against Donald Trump:

We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place& [that] this is not just defending the establishment; it s moving somewhere new.

You don t say!

It s hard to convey the scale of the comedy in this article, which received a lot of attention. Brooks lifts the opening from Genesis ( In the beginning there was agony ) and the ending from the Communist Manifesto (see below). In between lay a call for mass civic uprising which spends much of its time trying to figure out where to find the civic part, after drafting corporate lawyers, university administrators, corporate executives, reporters, and what other kinds of people live in America? It s either the funniest revolutionary manifesto ever, or the most touching. You be the judge:

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Matt Taibbi.