the i have a kind of a working theory about not only my own life but yours and frank bascom s to which is to which is what i call oppositional thinking so i would try to if i were writing about frank and trump i would try to find something provocative for him to say. richard ford has never made any secret of his dislike for the current u.s. president but he says the reasons that his country and perhaps the entire world is so divided go far beyond donald trump. was there too many people. a lot of those people don t have anything and they re living in places where they don t have enough food and they don t have any education but they ve all got cell phones and they ve all got t.v. s they can very easily see that you notice right up here the other side of the ocean there are a lot of people who are doing a lot better than we are why is that that doesn t seem fair it isn t fair and so