OPINION:
In a 6,000-word hit piece in the Jan. 29 issue of The Atlantic, former first lady Hillary Clinton unloaded on Trump supporters. Oh, those deplorables.
President Trump’s deportation policies are heartless, Mrs. Clinton charges. Families are “being torn apart.” She demands compassion for illegal aliens but not for their victims — the Americans who are regularly robbed, raped and murdered by undocumented thugs.
There’s an old Jewish saying: “Kindness to the cruel is cruelty to the kind.”
Mrs. Clinton’s meditation on empathy is ironic, coming as it does from a woman with a reputation for having all the warmth of a polar bear on an ice floe during a blizzard.
Mrs. Clinton is known to scream at aides and throw things when she is angry. When her husband was president, White House staffers were ordered not to look at her if she walked past them, lest she be sullied by the stares of mere mortals.
First daughter Chelsea Clinton told friends that her parents referred to the Secret Service agents sworn to lay down their lives to protect them as “our trained pigs.”
The avatar of empathy really shined as her husband’s enabler.
Ever since the Clintons entered public life, it was Mrs. Clinton’s job to destroy the reputations of the women who came forward to say they had been victimized by her husband.
Who can forget her 1998 interview on “The Today Show” when she suggested that former White House intern Monica Lewinsky’s revelations of oral sex in the Oval Office were the fantasies of a lovesick 22-year-old, or her 1992 “60 Minutes” interview, in which she trashed Bill’s ex-mistress, Gennifer Flowers?
It was all part of a cynical bargain.
Hillary would provide cover for the man with a chronically malfunctioning zipper. Then, when her turn came to reach for the ring of power, her husband would loyally support her. In a way, she was a character assassin for hire.
The left needs to keep reminding us how empathetic it is or we’re liable to forget, which is easy to do when so many liberals celebrated the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In a YouGov poll taken shortly after Kirk’s death, 17% of those who described themselves as “very liberal” said violence can sometimes be justified to achieve political goals — such as punishing the opponents of identity politics — compared with only 6% of conservatives.
Sadistic fantasies populate the leftist mind.
For sheer savagery, it’s hard to beat the delivery room nurse at a Boca Raton, Florida, hospital who posted that it would give her “great joy” if White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is expecting her second child, suffered severe injury in childbirth (“I hope that you f—-ing rip from bow to stern”).
A number of anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists, including alleged journalist Don Lemon, were arrested after the Jan. 18 invasion of a St. Paul, Minnesota, church. They are charged with terrorizing congregants, in one case screaming at weeping children: “Do you know your parents are Nazis? They are going to burn in hell!”
The left could write a book on empathy — a very short book.
There are those who believe that conservatives are Ebenezer Scrooge clones while liberals are a bunch of Bob Cratchits. Still, various surveys show that conservative households give an average of 30% more to charity than their liberal counterparts. Conservatives are also twice as likely to volunteer to help the poor.
Liberals demand empathy from everyone but themselves.
And “St. Hillary” ascended the mountain and spoke to the multitude, saying: “Blessed are those who kill children in the womb in the name of choice, for they shall be called champions of women’s rights. Blessed are those who mutilate minors who are confused about their gender. Blessed are those who stigmatize law enforcement officers, endangering their lives. Blessed are those who seek to protect murderers, rapists and child molesters in the name of compassion.”
And the people called her a hypocrite and turned away.
After being threatened with contempt of Congress charges, Hillary and her party-boy husband will testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on their relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which probably consisted of heartfelt discussions of the quality of mercy during flights on the Lolita Express.
• Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
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