There’s a political, psych-social divide in America and it’s palpable. Evidence thereof was published in the Post-Dispatch on Dec. 1. The side-by-side offerings of John Gartner (“Trump must be evaluated for removal”) and Nancy Mroczek (“President Trump is not mentally ill”) is a crystal-clear presentation of the American divide.
Gartner gave a straightforward, reality-based assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency and the existential threat to America and the world posed by his presidency. Mroczek in defense of President Trump began her article by chastising all who think that Trump is mentally ill. Thereafter, she assured readers that Trump has been victimized by all manner of Democrat skullduggery yet trudges on with the business of state.
Mroczek ends with a Looney Tunes statement of victimization: that all Trump supporters must “whisper their faith” in Trump lest they be “set upon in the land of the free.” Really?
Perhaps Mroczek’s perception of Trump and his presidency is the alternative truth that White House sycophants babble about when Trump is caught in one of his daily blatant lies. But the facts of Trump’s gross incompetence are there for the finding, if one chooses to seek those facts. Accepting the truth as the truth is another matter. Therein lies the essence of America’s great divide.
Michael K. Broughton • Green Park
