‘Empathy’…that is something Trump does not have. That is one of the PROBLEMS. He is unable to put himself in anyone else’s place. He cannot FEEL for them. When you ‘care’ there must be a motive. ‘Politically correct’. It is always and completely about him, because of him, for him. Mike DeWine tries to appeal to his better nature. Donnie does not HAVE that. It’s nice to see that the Governor does.
Trump is losing the mask debate because there isn’t one. More than 2/3rds of Americans support wearing masks. He’s out of touch, That’s the worst place to be as an incumbent politician running for re-election.
Even Hannity is calling for people to wear masks after being troubled by the Ozarks video:
” Look, I understand these are young people. Experts keep saying over and over they are at a much lower risk, but if they do get this — and again, there’s no mask wearing here that I see, not much at all. I see no social distancing. But if they get the virus and then are in contact with older, more vulnerable Americans, that could be a disaster for others. That’s why the short period of time — it’s only temporary. If you can’t social distance, please wear the mask. Do it for your mom, your dad, your grandma, your grandpa.”
The lack of empathy in Trump is extreme, but it is so bad he actually cannot leverage it in the way a narcissist would normally. Feigned concern, grand acts to demonstrate he has it to the rubes, the calculated gas lighting of compassion. None of those things really exist with him. It is as dark to him as a cave far underground. When he does attempt it, the process is so brief and abortive that it is inconsequential to his bag of tricks. That is one of the unique things to his malfunction and is actually a wonder that after all these years, he never developed it.
I’m not religious (the last day that I attended a service outside of a wedding or a bat mitzvah was my own confirmation when I was 13 years old), so I didn’t raise my daughter to be religious.
But on the flip side, I always felt a little sad that she wasn’t learning things about different religions. So, one way that I tried to teach her was through film. When she was little, she loved Jesus Christ Superstar.