David Brooks is, to my mind, the most perceptive American commentator. He is a conservative who understands Obama and what he is trying to do. So, I was particularly interested by his remarks on the Charlie Rose show where he said that Cameron’s emphasis on society is what the right should offer as an alternative to the enhanced role for the state that Obama is advocating:
“we now have two models. We have the Obama model, which is technocratic, sending teams of experts to solve problems. Very centralized, actually. And then if you want the alternate model — the Republicans in this country unfortunately have no model because they haven’t thought about it, or they haven’t thought productively about it.
But there is another model. And that is David Cameron, the British conservative leader in Britain.
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