Sentence:  In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover , and the party 's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression , caused a great majority of Americans to <WSD>see</WSD> the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  deem to be