95% of Trump voters are normal nice everyday people. And I’ll let you in on a little secret, 95% of democratic voters are also normal, nice, everyday people. People don’t wake up, support Trump and kick a puppy just for fun. There is an empathy problem building in the western world, but it has much more to do with the lack of a super-ordinate principle that unifies us as a civilization, and the amplification of extremes created by the internet than it does with a 8 year old political movement
When do they mock empathy? I’ve never seen that, I’ve never heard of that. Everything I do hear is the same as that quote where Charlie Kirk supposedly says “empathy is woke.” When he was actually saying he thought the word empathy had been co-opted and he preferred the word “sympathy”.