Anti-liberal Trolls
David Brooks:
For centuries,
conservatives have repeated a specific critique against state power. Statism,
conservatives have argued, has a tendency to become brutalist and inhumane
because a bureaucracy can’t see or account for the complexity of reality. It
tries to impose uniform rules on the organic intricacy of human relationships.
Statist social engineering projects cause horrific suffering because in the
mind of statists, the abstract rule is more important than the human being in
front of them. The person must be crushed for the sake of the abstraction.
This is exactly what the
Trump immigration policies are doing. Families are ripped apart and children
are left weeping by the fences constructed by government officials blindly
following a regulation.
This
illustrates something crucial about this administration. It is not populated by
conservatives. It is populated by anti-liberal trolls.