Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks had an actual debate on Friday’s PBS News Hour. However, it was more of an inside-the-family argument about the best way for Democrats to stand up to President Donald Trump. Capehart argued that, after Senate Democrats declined to shut down the government, the party needs to grow “a spine,” while Brooks argued Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did the right thing by not making a bad situation worse by allowing Trump to further “decimate” the country.
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Brooks, on the other hand, joked, “I'm on team Schumer. So, never thought I'd say those words.”
After noting that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a similar argument to the one Capehart did, Brooks added, “The problem with the AOC side is they never answered Chuck Schumer's core argument, is that if we shut down the government, Donald Trump will have expanded power to furlough all these nonessential workers, and he will never bring them back.”
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