On Friday morning, CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto and senior political analyst David Gergen hailed President Biden's supposed FDR-esque Thursday night address for breaking with the Reaganesque distrust of government solutions to problems. Sciutto began: "You know, the central part of that point, from President Biden last night, about trust in government. It goes further than just hearing factual statements from the White House, as opposed to lies. Because it -- it -- you know, when you look at the COVID relief, this is a massive change in the government role in people's lives, with high approval ratings."
Sciutto the former Obama aide asked Gergen for his opinion on the morning column from "David Brooks, conservative columnist for The New York Times." Brooks is not conservative, especially now in his flagrant cheerleading for the massive "COVID relief" package. But Gergen and Brooks are an easy match: both have served as the fake "conservative" half of the