To the Editor:
Arthur Brooks’s article “Bipartisanship Isn’t for Wimps, After All” (Sunday Review, April 10) is eloquent and sincere denialism.
Especially given what’s happened in the raucous G.O.P. contest this year that has ended up with candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, implying that “both sides do it” and everyone’s to blame for “polarization” means that no one’s to blame.
A recent book by E. J. Dionne Jr. and another by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann patiently explain the “asymmetrical polarization” poisoning our politics. One of our two great political parties has a sizable number if not a majority of members who believe that the president is not an American, man-made climate change is a hoax, “reverse racism” is worse than racism, and Benghazi was worse than Watergate.
Who are the Democratic equivalents of birthers, Birchers, secessionists, white militias, shut-downers, vote-suppressers and Jade Helm conspiratorialists? There really aren’t any.
Until G.O.P. commentators and officials challenge rather than merely inflame their base, there will be a reckoning if not a semi-realignment this fall because, as former Representative Barney Frank, a Democrat, observed, “We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.”
MARK GREEN
New York
The writer, the first New York City public advocate, is the author of the forthcoming “Bright, Infinite Future: A Generational Memoir of the Progressive Rise.”
Note from KBJ: Mark Green is still crazy after all these years:
- Barack Obama has never produced his original birth certificate.
- Global Warming is a hoax perpetrated by left-wing "scientists" and totalitarians.
- Racism is racism, whether perpetrated by whites or perpetrated by blacks.
- Nobody died in Watergate.
- The Democrat equivalents are Truthers, race hustlers, the open-borders crowd, anarchists, wacko environmentalists, communists, Black Panthers, Global-Warming alarmists, sexual perverts, America haters, multiculturalists, baby killers, terrorist sympathizers, and feminazis.
Idiocy never sleeps.
