GOP views not popular at liberal institution

I empathize with Prof. Ellen Lewin for telling the University of Iowa College Republicans where to go. They claim that the university is “ ... not a welcome place for Republican views.” Well, let's see, tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts in student loans, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, elimination of the IRS, state and federal education departments and OSHA - these views are not selling well in the marketplace of ideas.

Natalie Ginty also claimed ”the Republican spectrum is broad.” Since moderate and liberal Republicans have long been purged from the party, she must mean the birthers, creationists, intelligent designers, secessionists, climate change deniers, pistol-packing homophobes, xenophobes, people who believe in tax cuts as theology, and those who see things as true simply because they believe them to be - i.e., the Republican base.

It's no surprise that the anti-intellectual, anti-scientific and faith-based ideology that predominates in the Republican Party isn't popular at a great liberal arts university where they do science and use logic.

Tom Jacobson

Riverside