Peggy Noonan has always given me a pain in the ass.

Peggy-Dave Brooks-Noonan

To me, she is just a David Brooks in Drag.
Her phony snobbery oozes out from between the lines of her uppity columns. m/r

What’s Wrong With Them? The Misguided Establishmentarian Right

Esther Goldberg  October 17, 2016

The case of Peggy Noonan.

Amongst Republicans there are two kinds of Trump-haters: the never-Trumpers who boast that they’ll never support him, and the non-never-Trumpers who say they’ll do so, but only by holding their noses. By their timidity, the latter reveal the tragic flaw that has prevented Republicans from winning elections. They’ll advance their arguments in favor of the Trump issues, and then go on to express their contempt for the man who had the courage to articulate them. Winners don’t do this sort of equivocating. ...

Noonan echoes Pauline Kael here:

Miss Noonan turns next to the “allegations” of sexual abuse by the Clintons’ victims, and again she establishes an equivalency between Hillary and Trump — all of the victims must be believed:

We cannot know for certain what is true, but my experience in such matters is that when a woman makes such a charge she is telling the truth. In a lifetime of fairly wide acquaintance, I’ve not known a woman to lie about sexual misbehavior or assault.

It’s extraordinary that, with all of the empirical research on faux sexual abuse accusations, Miss Noonan chooses to look only to the experience of herself and her friends. Based on her own experience, the Trump and Clinton accusers have equal credibility. There’s no need to examine individual cases.
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This great article defines the old GOP right here:
So here we come to the heart of the matter. The establishment Right has always felt insecure in the face of the more polished, witty, cosmopolitan Left. It is they who get the best tables at Le Cirque, they who get to hobnob with glamorous movie stars and sports figures. It is they who get to look down on conservatives simply on account of what they believe.

-go to read the full fine article at the link above-