Of all the GOP presidential candidates, David Brooks says, Newt Gingrich is the one whose general “big government conservatism” worldview is most like his own. So why does Brooks believe that a Gingrich nomination would “severely damage conservatism and the Republican Party”? Mostly because of his deficient temperament and character. Excerpt: As Yuval Levin noted in … Continue reading Brooks on the Gingrich temptation