Letter: NYT hasn’t a clue on GOP
The New York Times’ editorial you printed May 6 begins with an ominous but poetic line, “The Republican Party’s trek into the darkness took a fateful step in Indiana on Tuesday.”
After the next few paragraphs, it relates that speaker of the House Paul Ryan told a young, dismayed Republican at Georgetown University to try not to worry so much about Trump: “I would just ask you to raise your gaze and look at the horizon that were trying to paint.” I assume Ryan was attending a poetry seminar.
The rest of the editorial is a set up for the last paragraph which is:
“It is the Republicans who are making a clear choice in 2016, one that seemed unimaginable a year ago: To stamp what they still like to call the party of Lincoln with the brand of Donald Trump.”
The Times in this editorial calls Trump a xenophobic demagogue with isolationist or fantastical ideas. In essence the Times is putting its stamp on the Republican supporters of Trump, intimating they are xenophobic demagogues with isolationist or fantastical ideas. I would expect words of reconciliation.
The editorial reveals the Times hasn’t a clue concerning Lincoln’s party. No attempt to define it.
Robert Pielli
Hilton Head Island
This story was originally published May 13, 2016 at 8:37 AM with the headline "Letter: NYT hasn’t a clue on GOP."