Brooks and Capehart on the Chances of Reaching a Debt Ceiling Deal Before Default
David Brooks:
Well, first, part of his problem is that he's too Twitter-focused at all.
I mean, Twitter, as we — as some people understand, is not real life and not real America. And too many of his issues, the woke mind virus, those are good Twitter issues. I don't think they're good average American issues. Like, bread-and-butter issues are good average American.
But he is, I think, too obsessed with Twitter. Second, his campaign has a problem, which was that he's not very good with people. And, therefore, if you look at the early ads, if you look at why he did Twitter, it's not the normal thing a candidate does while announcing their campaign, which is like to be around other human beings.
And, third, why is he running? I mean, there was a lot of verbiage in that announcement, but what specifically is he running to do? You can't run for president, as Ted Kennedy learned many years ago, if you don't have a crisp answer to that question, and he didn't really have one, at least so far.
