In his opinion piece, “This is why we need to spend $4 trillion”, David Brooks (the thoughtful and respectful sole moderate columnist for The New York Times) suggests Republicans (in context) “get to stick their middle finger in the air against those Democrats (in context) who they think look down on them.” It’s not difficult to take exception to Brooks’ use of the word “think.”
Consider the following statements by notable Democrats: FBI agent Peter Strzok, Bill Clinton campaign manager James Carville and Hillary Clinton. Strzok’s referral (in an email to his FBI paramour) to Trump supporters as “smelly Walmart shoppers”; Carville’s observation (in a news interview), “Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find”; and Clinton’s infamous and consequential statement (in a fundraiser speech), “Half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a basket of deplorables.”
These statements make abundantly clear to Republicans the contempt their Democrat betters hold for their fellow Americans of lower caste.
Brooks’ piece would have been closer to the truth had he used the word “know” rather than “think.”
Fred Fairclough, Jr., Salt Lake City
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