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& #39;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& #39;d hurt a lot of people. The Trump supporters I know who are upset are mostly upset because he can& #39;t hurt the right people anymore. It& #39;s not the same impulse.

So while there& #39;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& #39;t get to sweep it under the rug yet.

(And I have a family full of Trump supporters so don& #39;t yammer at me about bubbles. I know way more Trumpists than they know liberals of any stripe. I& #39;m not gonna tell em to cry more but I& #39;m not handing out hugs either.)

And I wrote about the kind of empathy that& #39;s important, and Trump ran against, here #click=https://t.co/Ii6gyR1u1l">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/30/trump-empathy-virtue-signaling/ #click=https://t.co/Ii6gyR1u1l">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2...