A deplorable sighting

I came face-to-face with a deplorable recently, an old man checking out at the doctor’s office ahead of me. He quizzed the clerk, who had dark skin, about her ethnicity. She looked him in the eyes and firmly said his inquiry was not appropriate, then completed his paperwork and said have a nice day.

It is inappropriate to say which one is a real, or better, American. But I choose her. I told her that man was who elected our president. She smiled but did not comment.

Based on what I hear and read, many Trump voters are having buyer’s remorse. A lot of politicians and business leaders say they just voted for the Republican agenda of tax cuts and deregulation. They would be happy to be done with Trump and get on with the tax- and regulation-cutting in Congress.

Maybe so. It seems rich people who believe the role of government is to help them get richer are the heart and soul of the Republican Party. No apologies necessary.

But the otherwise virtuous rich also helped energize the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, homophobic, fear and hate-mongering, pseudo-Christian core of the fetid right wing which appears to be the guts of today’s Republican Party.

I imagine a few right-wingers now claim they didn’t really like Trump, they just voted against Crooked (Lock her up!) Hillary, which helps prove my point.

The virtuous rich did a masterful job of selling the patented Republican Big Lie about their opponent, reportedly with a little help from Russia. HOWELL MEDDERS Fayetteville