In Diane Hessan’s Jan. 24 op-ed about why women support Donald Trump (“About those ‘Women for Trump,’ ”), one woman is quoted as saying that Democrats are “elitists” who don’t care about her, the implication, of course, being that Trump does.
I am slack-jawed by this statement, by the sheer ignorance and irony of her words, when every single fact points to just the opposite.
Do “elitists” care about the poor and marginalized—do they fight for equality and against racial injustice? Do “elitists” march to protect children thrown into cages at our borders? Do “elitists” defend women seeking health care and reproductive rights—rights guaranteed to them by federal law for more than 45 years? Do “elitists” fight to protect our planet against the ravages of climate change? Do “elitists” accept the necessity for higher taxes in order to provide health care for all, and a better education for all of our children?
The Democratic Party has stood for these very ideals for decades, while Republicans crow about tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and self-righteously wash their hands of any civic responsibility, declaring the need for poor people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Republicans have elected, and protected, a morally bankrupt man who has no ideology other than himself, and they continue to claim, over and over, with astonishing impunity, that this president represents them. Sadly, they may be absolutely right.
Margaret Larkin
Newton
Note from KBJ: Margaret Larkin can't stand it that the American people elected Donald Trump president. Guess what, Margaret? We're going to do it again! We love him! Stop projecting your moral bankruptcy onto President Trump.
