I don ' t disagree that liberals have issues with empathy as well a lot of their social justice energy comes from a place , IMO , of selfaggrandizement rather than empathynot that , generally , it matters if the result is good , but it strikes me as idiotic to say that Trump winning is the entire result of liberals being too mean to rednecks . Nearly half the country voted for a narcissistic plutocrat endorsed by the KKK . I ' d say those voters ' personal issues that led them to vote that way are actually at least MOST of the issue . The DNC running a candidate with limited appeal outside the coasts was only part of the cause . The DNC didn ' t cause Trump to win the republican primary over many more qualified people , some with much better claims of smallgovernment principles . That was people who can ' t resist a strongman personality and were flattered to hear their unpopular opinions about Mexicans , Muslims , and women stared out loud in the political sphere .