As he incisively dissects the faux lament of political centrists that we on "the left" don't want to be "friends" with those on the right — who, when we're LGBTQ, may well want to kill us or to collude with those who want that — A.R. Moxon offers the best takedown I've seen so far of that vacuous blowhard David Brooks and his perpetual nattering about the loss of civility (i.e., of deference to affluent straight white men like himself).
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why