![]() This is the same pope whom Donald Trump attacked on Twitter during the campaign. In the spring of 2017, Pope Francis gave a TED Talk. I look at the people at Trump’s rallies, cheering for his hateful rants, and I wonder: Where’s their empathy and understanding? Why are they allowed to close their hearts to the striving immigrant father and the grieving black mother, or the LGBT teenager who’s bullied at school and thinking of suicide? Why doesn’t the press write think pieces about Trump voters trying to understand why most Americans rejected their candidate? Why is the burden of opening our hearts only on half the country? And yet I’ve come to believe that for me personally and for our country generally, we have no choice but to try. I also feel sympathy for people who believed Trump’s promises and are now terrified that he’s trying to take away their health care, not make it better, and cut taxes for the superrich, not invest in infrastructure. or who have a deeply held belief in limited government, or an overriding moral objection to abortion. ![]() or who don’t think any party should control the White House for more than eight years at a time . . . It’s relatively easy to empathize with hardworking, warmhearted people who decided they couldn’t in good conscience vote for me after reading that letter from Jim Comey . . . “Do I feel empathy for Trump voters? That’s a question I’ve asked myself a lot. ![]()
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