Quote of the Day: David Brooks's Magic Green Jacket

Benjamin F. Carlson 10 Views Jul 27, 2010
"It's a magic green jacket. I can put it on today and, suddenly, my mind shifts back to the left. I start thinking like a Democrat, feeling a strange accompanying hunger for brown rice."

--From a David Brooks column in which he takes the perspective of a Democrat through the conceit of wearing his old, green Army jacket

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