David Brooks: The GOP doesn’t realize “this is a Joe McCarthy moment” — history will judge them for where they stood

In his Friday New York Times column, economist David Brooks argued that unbeknownst to itself, the Republican Party is having “a Joe McCarthy moment” — meaning that history will judge people by “where they stood at this time,” and that those “who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.”
He wrote that America will, after this election, need “a new national story,” bec