David Brooks is fucking dumb. But you already knew that

He starts off his latest idiotic piece of crap with this, actually sound, advice for Democrats:

Don't take people at their word. Don't listen to them when they tell you how to be virtuous.

They're faking it. They don't care about virtue, or you or the common good. They're just taking opportunistic potshots under the guise of sermonizing. They're just a bunch of hypocrites.

I, of course, immediately thought of all the shit-tastic free 'advice' Brooks and other conservative and moderate talking heads have given Democrats recently. But now, what does Brooks do in this column? He tells the Democratic party what they need to do in order to be virtuous! (In case you were actually wondering, he thinks Democrats should support 'progressive indexing' in Social Security 'reform' -- because, I guess, a progressive benefits cut that fails to address a non-existent problem has that appealing word 'progressive' in there.)

I wonder if Brooks could even comprehend the staggering self-contradictory nature of this column if it was patiently explained to him with the help of several four-colour diagrams.