“Donald Trump and Joe Biden are reflections of what is wrong in contemporary culture,” Cal Thomas stated in a recent column (“Shame on us for electing bad leaders,” Aug. 2).
But lumping Trump and Biden together as twin deplorables is one whale of an assertion.
Let me see: Last time I looked, Biden wasn’t a fake Christian, a boastful letch, a dictators’ brown-noser, a global warming pooh-pooher and a colossal liar.
Thomas compared them to two other presidents, Warren Harding and his successor, Calvin Coolidge, maintaining about them what he didn’t maintain about Biden and Trump but should have: that “the contrast between the two men is stark.”
Harding’s scandals, Thomas writes, “included paying hush money to cover up extramarital affairs (sound familiar?), an out-of-wedlock child and criminal activity by cronies.” (That parenthetical question is Thomas’ own.)
Coolidge, on the other hand, was a man of character not given to engaging in “noisy theater, constant self-promotion and the demonization of opponents,” Thomas quoted David Schribman as saying in The Wall Street Journal recently — Thomas immediately adding, “But enough of Donald Trump.”
The reason the columnist didn’t accuse Biden of such behavior is because he knows Biden’s innocent of it — yet he lumps him together with Trump in the stinkers class.
In fact, Thomas didn’t give a single example of blameworthiness on Biden’s part. Calvin Coolidge he isn’t, but he’s a damn sight preferable to that egomaniacal rabble-rouser, Donald Trump, who thinks the Constitution is for the birds.
William LaRochelle, Lewiston
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