Greensboro News & Record editorial writer Doug Clark has made many lame attempts at satire over the years. I would say that the closing paragraphs of today’s column were yet another attempt at satire, but unfortunately it appears as though he’s dead serious.

In the column, Clark scratches his head and simply can’t understand the Pew Research’s poll showing that only 36 percent of Republicans believe colleges and universities have a “positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days.” OK fine–we can cite examples of colleges and universities openly displaying their radical liberal politics -many supported by our tax dollars and led by professors with no fear of losing their jobs like the rest of us- all day long. The fact that the guys on the editorial boards of mainstream newspapers don’t —or refuse to—see it is nothing new.

But what really bothered me about Clark’s column was the mean, nasty cheap shot he took at Trump voters:

In their hearts, Trump voters probably know that most of the old manufacturing jobs are gone for good, lost not only to cheaper labor overseas but to automation. They just liked the promises.

They also probably know that good jobs now require a fancy college education, which they haven’t got, and they’re a little resentful. Especially if they think those jobs are going to “liberal” college kids or, worse, foreigners. And if they don’t even understand what those jobs are.

In other words, if you voted Trump, you’re just plain stupid. And Doug Clark probably scratches his head and wonders why his newspaper keeps getting smaller and smaller….