Jay Fleitman’s latest op-ed nicely captures the disconnect people in the country are experiencing between people of different political affiliations.
Liberals remain astonished that our current president has such limited grasp of the constitution, governance and geopolitical issues; while Fleitman explains, with typical false equivalence, that Obama, a senator and constitutional law professor, was “also a political newcomer.”
The incredible ongoing revelations of dysfunction in the White House, attributed to an unstable president, most recently in an op-ed by a senior official, are glibly dismissed as likely fake news.
The continued economic recovery, begun under Obama, is of course lauded, while the once urgent issue of the deficit is no longer talked about. Liberals remain confused by the silence around this once grave danger, as the deficit grows ever larger. Angst does not begin to describe what many of us are experiencing over the last 18 months as we witness the continued assault on our civic institutions, public discourse, health care and the environment.
We fear irrevocable harm to our democracy in service to conservative “wins.”
Peter Weitzman
Northampton