Night Of The Living Dead Centrists

Two weeks after proclaiming that neoliberalism is dead, David Brooks has said that he is a neoliberal. ~Mickey Kaus

Kaus refers to these twocolumns by Brooks, in which he has determined that both neoliberalism and small-government conservatism are finished and things of the past (even assuming that the latter even existed in some practical way).  In the course of declaring small-government conservatism finished, however, he does end up saying things that sound like a sort of “Republicrat”-cum-neoliberal platform.  Quoth Kaus on Brooks: “He’s Bill Clinton.”  That seems to me to be a far more damning indictment of Brooks than anything Sullivan could dream up about Christianists and authoritarian welfarism (or whatever it is he thinks is going on).