New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour talking head David Brooks loves himself some Stalin and Mao analogies. Back in May, he compared Elon Musk and DOGE to the murderous dictators. This Friday, he compared President Trump, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, and “gigantic portraits” of Trump to the communist tyrants and claimed it reminded him of the “Stalin era.”
During a discussion on the Kennedy Center rebrand, host Geoff Bennett wondered, “Are we seeing an evolution here in how President Trump publicly asserts his power?”
Brooks agreed, “Yes, that's well put. It is an assertion of power. You think, who else has big portraits of themselves all over? Mao Zedong. Stalin. Authoritarian leaders know that a certain part of the population likes it when they see the great leader idolized and venerated.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
