Brooks is conservative. But he left the Repub party. He's a moderate within today's political landscape.
Brooks on COVID
Much of Brook's writing about covid focuses on political division and it's damaging effects on controlling covid. He's been writing about this since March of 2020. Here are a few of his essays.
Pandemics Kill Compassion, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/opin ... ssion.html
Screw This Virus!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opin ... ation.html
The Moral Meaning of the Plague
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opin ... aning.html
The Pandemic of Fear and Agony
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/opin ... xiety.html
We Need National Service. Now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opin ... virus.html
If We Had a Real Leader
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/opin ... trump.html
America Is Facing 5 Epic Crises All at Once
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opin ... tests.html
The National Humiliation We Need
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opin ... uly-4.html
Brooks on the GOP
Letter to a Young Republican
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opin ... oters.html
Five Great Things Biden Has Already Done
The party is politically viable, but it is intellectually and morally bankrupt. Under Trump it became an apocalyptic personality cult. But you should know, as I’m sure you do, that there are many Republicans who want to change their party and make it a vehicle for conservative ideas.
These people are energized as never before and feel their whole lives have been preparation for the coming moral, intellectual and political struggle. This is a struggle to create a Republican Party that is democratic and not authoritarian, patriotic and not nationalistic, conservative and not reactionary, benevolent and not belligerent, intellectually self-confident and not apocalyptic and dishonest.
Republicans will beat Trumpism not by confronting it directly but by focusing on policymaking, by becoming a regular party once again. As Senator Ben Sasse put it, it’s to make the Republican Party about more than one dude. You may have noticed that this week, Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton are teaming up on an effort to raise the minimum wage and enforce immigration laws, two plans to boost working class wages. That’s what there needs to be more of.
Will this work? Is the Republican Party salvageable? Nobody knows. Right now Republicans are rallying around Trump because they believe Democrats and the media are going after him. It’s pie in the sky to ask rank-and-file Republicans to denounce the man they’ve clung to. But, as has been observed, we Americans don’t solve our problems, we just leave them behind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opin ... biden.html
NY Times's David Brooks: GOP under Trump is harming every cause it claims to serve
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3639 ... -claims-to
The Rotting of the Republican Mind
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opin ... ation.html
David Brooks: The GOP is getting worse
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opi ... 348579002/
Where Do Republicans Go From Here
https://nyti.ms/2Cdq1cs