“Hillary Clinton just penned a column for the Atlantic on ‘MAGA’s War on Empathy’ because, when one thinks of empathy, one thinks of her,” joked law professor Jonathan Turley. “From dismissing women raising sexual assaults as ‘bimbo eruptions’ or her chilling Benghazi testimony, Clinton is empathy personified.”

Don’t forget her 2016 dismissal of half the country as a “basket of deplorables” who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.” Years after that touching example of empathy, Clinton lectured the deplorables again — this time for their ingratitude for everything Joe Biden had done to for them. A year after that, she was back at it, proclaiming that “there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members” — meaning supporters of Donald Trump.

Nothing says “empathy” like a reeducation camp!

Something tells me I could write an entire book about Hillary Clinton’s very demented version of “empathy.”

Yet Turley was right — there she was, gracing the pages of The Atlantic with her thoughts on the “deep moral rot at the heart of Trump’s movement.” Her first paragraph sets the tone:

When I first saw the video of the killing of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital, I immediately thought of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Federal agents shot Pretti after he tried to help a woman they had thrown to the ground and pepper-sprayed. Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves and help those in need. “Do this and you will live,” he says. Not in Donald Trump’s America.

Jesus said a lot of things that Hillary twists or disregards, and this is no different. Law enforcement pepper-sprayed and manhandled many of the leftist agitators because they were blocking the lawful actions of federal officers. Alex Pretti didn’t deserve to die, and it might have even been a mistake precipitated by the accidental discharge of his own Sig P320, but he was not the good guy.

Good Samaritan, my rear end.

Clinton is correct that members of the Trump administration were plainly over the top in their characterization of Pretti and Renee Good before him. I might even concede that there is sometimes “reflexively cruel” posturing by Trump and some of his team.

But for Clinton to complain about his “dishonest response” is total hypocrisy. In her next two paragraphs, she engages in blatant dishonesty. She complains about “children separated from their parents,” though the child who made news in Minnesota recently was held by ICE because his dad abandoned him while fleeing. The two were detained together in Texas, and the Left complained so hard about it that a Bill Clinton-appointed judge just granted their release with an unhinged ruling about Trump’s administration leaving the boy “traumatized.”

The father and son then posed for a photo with Democrat Representatives Joaquin Castro (TX) and Ilhan Omar (MN).

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Omar nor Castro mentioned the thousands of migrant kids abused by traffickers and then lost by the Biden administration. They didn’t complain about the Americans killed by illegal aliens or the drugs they brought across the border.

Clinton moved on to opine, “Other recent presidents, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, managed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants without turning American cities into battlegrounds or making a show of keeping children in cages.”

“Making a show” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. If Clinton were honest, she would have noted that Team Obama set up the cages. Moreover, Trump didn’t “make a show” of it, either; the Trump-deranged Leftmedia did. Also, Obama didn’t “turn American cities into battlegrounds” because no one violently resisted his deportation of three million illegals.

Of course, lying is second nature to the woman who seeded the fabrication of the entire Russia collusion hoax.

Time, space, and reader tolerance won’t permit me to dissect Clinton’s entire 6,000-word screed, but here are a few other nuggets that display her astounding empathy for people who think differently:

“That compassion is weak and cruelty is strong has become an article of MAGA faith,” Clinton wrote. “Trump and his allies believe that the more inhumane the treatment, the more likely it is to spread fear.”

The MAGA movement, she declared, is guilty of “glorification of cruelty,” “rejection of compassion,” and “waging a war on empathy.” Worse, “it threatens to pave the way for an extreme vision of Christian nationalism that seeks to replace democracy with theocracy in America.”

“The savagery is a feature, not a bug,” she added.

Clinton also took special aim at podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey for her work to expose “toxic empathy.” As our Thomas Gallatin explained last year, Stuckey is right. Clinton is wrong.

The Trump administration is, in fact, adjusting its strategy and tactics in the wake of the violence in Minnesota. That’s good and welcome. Humility and grace are welcome features when introduced in government.

So, to quote another gem from Hillary Clinton, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Well, I’m not going to pretend that Donald Trump is a Christian when I see no convincing evidence of it. Even more so for Hillary Clinton, her long Methodist allegiance notwithstanding. I’m also not going to argue that every single thing f-bomb-dropping scuffling ICE agents do in the streets of Minneapolis is actually some kind of Christian compassion, though upholding the law and protecting American citizens from criminal illegal aliens is absolutely a good thing.

As for Hillary, Jesus also said, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.”

The fruits of far too many American politicians, Clinton high among them, are utterly rotten.

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