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David Brooks displays an uncommon amount of professional jealousy when he claims:

[Drew Westen] takes an interesting dollop of neuroscience and uses it to coat the conventional clichés of the Why Democrats Lose genre.

Also, the argument Brooks attempts to offer regarding Dean vs Kerry is backward:

Third, how did John Kerry beat Howard Dean in the Democratic primaries? Was it because of his Oprah-esque displays of emotional intensity?

Kerry won because he was nebulously more “electable” than Dean, not by any reasonous argument. As Brooks asserts later in his assessment, reason and emotion are not nemeses.

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