But here’s my question: Who is telling the Tea Partiers and Trump voters to empathize with the rest of us?
I'm tempted to crack a joke about not supporting lost causes. Tempted, because I think most of the supporters just circle (R) without reading anything else. It's not a matter of convincing people to not be psychopaths; it's a matter of convincing people that the political system is fixable, meaning that the input you feed it actually matters.
The aforementioned joke seems counterproductive toward that aim.