“Donald Trump and Joe Biden are reflections of what is wrong in contemporary culture,” Cal Thomas stated in a recent column (“Shame on us for electing bad leaders,” Aug. 2).

But lumping Trump and Biden together as twin deplorables is one whale of an assertion.

Let me see:  Last time I looked, Biden wasn’t a fake Christian, a boastful letch, a dictators’ brown-noser, a global warming pooh-pooher and a colossal liar.

Thomas compared them to two other presidents, Warren Harding and his successor, Calvin Coolidge, maintaining about them what he didn’t maintain about Biden and Trump but should have: that “the contrast between the two men is stark.”

Harding’s scandals, Thomas writes, “included paying hush money to cover up extramarital affairs (sound familiar?), an out-of-wedlock child and criminal activity by cronies.” (That parenthetical question is Thomas’ own.)

Coolidge, on the other hand, was a man of character not given to engaging in “noisy theater, constant self-promotion and the demonization of opponents,” Thomas quoted David Schribman as saying in The Wall Street Journal recently — Thomas immediately adding, “But enough of Donald Trump.”