We already empathize with Trump supporters on policy. We want them all to have healthcare, to make a living wage, to have a fair and equal justice system. We don't have to empathize with them because they voted against those things and lost.

Everyone I know who was upset about Trump winning was upset because we knew he'd hurt a lot of people. The Trump supporters I know who are upset are mostly upset because he can't hurt the right people anymore. It's not the same impulse.

So while there's no need to behave like they did, maybe give them some time to experience the normalcy of a Biden presidency and think about what they did when they voted for Trump. They don't get to sweep it under the rug yet.

(And I have a family full of Trump supporters so don't yammer at me about bubbles. I know way more Trumpists than they know liberals of any stripe. I'm not gonna tell em to cry more but I'm not handing out hugs either.)

And I wrote about the kind of empathy that's important, and Trump ran against, here https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/30/trump-empathy-virtue-signaling/#click=https://t.co/Ii6gyR1u1l