David Brooks Cheap Caricature of Progressive Positions: The Left Must be Winning

David Brooks used the victory of the Conservative in the United Kingdom to celebrate the "center-right moment in his column this morning. To make his case he largely creates a caricature of the left to argue for the greater wisdom of the center-right. He tells readers:

"Over the past few years, left-of-center economic policy has moved from opportunity progressivism to redistributionist progressivism. Opportunity progressivism is associated with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the 1990s and May...