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🚨   Brooks Invokes Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin To Mark Musk's Departure From DOGE

Politics

New York Times columnist David Brooks did the not-so-clever trick of insisting he wasn’t saying what he was indeed saying on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour as he reflected back on Elon Musk’s time at DOGE by comparing him to Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin. Host Amna Nawaz wondered, “David, how do you look at it? What's his legacy, if we know that yet?” Brooks declared that, “As a budget matter, you would not say he had a big effect, but he did manage to destroy NIH and USAID. And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over.

newsbusters.org     May 31, 2025