Deep Thoughts From America’s Complacent Affluent Elites

I know what these words from Mike Allen mean, but this makes no sense:

David Brooks, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and I had a worthy email exchange last night about David’s column in today’s New York Times

This seems…implausible! And amazingly the execution is worse than the premise. Samples:

“I truly hope these kids and all of us snap out of it, play to our insane collective strengths, and direct our energy to fixing shit, beating China and perfecting in our imperfect way the American experiment.”

I left the exercise thinking that the way we teach American history in public schools is one of the really destructive forces in national life.
“To my mind the U.S. has been on balance an enormous force for good in the world, and we are the lucky inheritors of an awesome legacy, from men and women who were much wiser than we are a lot of the time.”

If only these kids will forget their student debt and dubious employment prospects and accept the truth, that everything is just fine, except for deficits and entitlement spending!