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David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg
By David Brooksross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg
Mr. Brooks, Mr. Douthat and Ms. Goldberg are opinion columnists. Douthat is a lot of “matters of opinion”.
Patrick Healy, the editor of the deputy opinion, hosted an online verbal exchange with Times opinion columnists David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg about Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Monday and the first hundred days of the new Trump administration.
Patrick Healy: We are in a historical moment that Americans have only experienced once before: the inauguration of a president who had occupied the workplace in the past and turned out, only to win the elections 4 years later. None of us were alive in 1893, so I need to explore how you make sense now. First, what are you thinking or feeling about Trump when your presidency began 8 years ago?
Ross Douthat: What was the planned George W. Bush, listening to Trump’s inaugural speech? It was a strange [improper] “? I think that strangeness was important, fundamental surrealism, the feeling that this was not the way the American general policy worked, anything that felt widely. The political lever or the legal maneuver Adequate, you can go to the global general and leave Trump’s world.
Michelle Goldberg: I went to that rally in Columbus Circle where Bill DeBlasio and stars like Cher and Robert DeNiro spoke. I remember feeling true terror about what was coming, but also a lot of solidarity with my fellow New Yorkers.
David Brooks: I was especially dismayed morally. It’s like watching Larry fly to make the pope-elect.
Healy: And when Trump’s first term ended 4 years ago, did you think your initial emotions and expectations regarding his presidency had been tested, or something in between?
Douthat: component of me. It can be eliminated through the amendment 25. At the same time, I felt that I had a decent intuition of why I had won in 2016 and where the reaction to him could get lost or lost or simply fail. It turned out to be more premonitory: there is no quick path; There were only non -success recovery attempts that yielded to our own moment, when it is general Trumpism, a central characteristic of a replacement world.
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