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<h1 class="page-title title">FAKE NEWS: No, Trump Doesn't Have An Empathy Problem On Hurricane Harvey</h1>
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<p>President Trump has made virtually all of the right moves on Hurricane Harvey. He made obvious to both Governor Greg Abbott of Texas and the local authorities that the federal government stood ready with all of its resources to aid efforts on the ground. He made clear to the public that he was attentively following developments, and that his administration was on top of the problem. He visited Texas — a political move now mandated by the overwrought media — to visit victims on the ground.</p>
<p>But that wasn’t enough — apparently, according to the media, Trump lacks empathy. Here’s a montage, cut by our own Robert Kraychik, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/20411/fake-news-montage-media-says-trump-lacks-empathy-robert-kraychik">showing just that</a>:</p>
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<p>Empathy, you see, is the highest virtue. It’s the quality that matters most. Never mind the resources on the ground. Never mind whether people are getting the help they need. <em>Empathy</em>.</p>
<p>So, what did Trump do wrong? He was Trumpian. He spoke in Texas about crowd size. He suggested that he’d wait to congratulate Governor Abbott on his response until the crisis was over. His wife wore a FLOTUS hat and high heels. The horror! The horror!</p>
<p>The truth is that the media had to focus in on Trump’s supposed empathy gap because they couldn’t critique his performance. The typical Leftist playbook when it comes to criticizing Republican politicians only contains three parts: stupid, corrupt, and evil. Trump’s response to the hurricane hasn’t been either stupid or corrupt, so the media go instead with evil.</p>
<p>What’s more, the media are playing a pathetic game of bait-and-switch with their language about empathy. Empathy, the Left believes, can be measured in amount of money the government spends. Not private charity; not time and effort. Cold hard government cash. That’s why there seems to be a constant refrain from the Left whenever a catastrophe occurs: if you don’t agree with them about government spending, it’s because you don’t care enough. The Leftist point of view equates caring with agreement; Trump doesn’t agree with them, so he doesn’t care.</p>
<p>The problem of course, is that caring has nothing to do with effectiveness. Victims in Texas don’t need Trump’s tears —they need his commitment to helping them within the bounds of the law. Empathetic people often make the worst legislators; they focus on the most discrete beneficiaries of policy, rather than the diffuse victims of it. Empathy doesn’t necessarily help you make good decisions.</p>
<p>But again, this is all misdirection in the end. Trump is Trump; he’s not going to well up in Texas or spend his time hugging babies. That’s also not his job. That’s what we have Oprah for. His job is to fulfill his constitutional obligations, and in this case, he seems to be doing fine.</p>
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