During PBS’s Inauguration coverage on Monday, New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Americans are distrustful” and so President Donald Trump “giving them concrete things that they can applaud at” in his Inaugural Address is likely the right move.
Brooks said, “It was the most State of the Union-y [Inaugural] Address. … Not stupid, not a stupid strategy. Americans are distrustful. I think they may be fed up with lofty words. And a lot of the policies are more popular than Donald Trump is. And so, if you’re facing a distrustful country, giving them concrete things that they can applaud at, that’s probably the right thing to do.”
He continued, “I will say, when he did get lofty, it was a little 19th century-ish, manifest destiny,
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