Parscale says Trump should have been more empathetic on coronavirus

[sabra]

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Source: The Hill

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale says that President Trump’s biggest policy error ahead of the 2020 election was showing a lack of public empathy about the novel coronavirus.

“People were scared,” Parscale said in an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum that aired Tuesday evening. “I think if he would have been publicly empathetic, he would have won by a landslide there. He could have leaned into it instead of run away from it.”

Parscale, who was pushed out of the role of campaign manager over the summer, said Trump’s decision to push for reopening the country instead of displaying empathy about COVID-19 hurt him with suburban voters in swing states like Georgia and Pennsylvania that Trump ultimately lost to Joe Biden, who is now president-elect.

Parscale described the move as the biggest “policy error” of the campaign, differentiating it from technical errors.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/528279-parscale-says-trump-should-have-been-more-empathetic-on-coronavirus

[Enterstageleft]

1. Wow...pot...kettle!

[paleotn]

2. Ppppppppt! Ya think?!

That, however, would have taken at least a modicum of competence. Something neither he, nor Parscale possess.

[Make7]

3. Not sure Trump is capable of empathy for the common folk. ( n/t )

[William Seger]

16. He's not even capable of faking it

He is so unfamiliar with the concept that he doesn't understand why he should at least try to fake it.

[Blue Owl]

4. Paranoid particulars of Parscale's pardon partially parameterized on Parler

[Golden Raisin]

5. I wouldn't expect any "empathy" from a man and an

administration that had no problem putting children in cages.

[C_U_L8R]

6. True but he's incapable of empathy

You know that, Brad. The real story isn't what he did or didn't do, it's who he is and what a damaged, fragile narcissist he is. He's ill in the head.

[The Genealogist]

7. Have you ever MET Donald Trump, Brad?

Good grief. The only empathy Donald Trump has is for Donald Trump.

[Warpy]

8. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Poor Parscale, humiliated on You Tube by the cops, carted off to a posh loony bin, and he still doesn't get it.

Donnie is like that because he has no choice, it's always going to be about Donnie and the only concern about Covid was that the numbers were gonna make him look bad when he did nothing but appoint political toadies to overrule the guys who knew what they were talking about but wouldn't take orders.

Jeez, Brad, we knew you were thick, but enough therapy should have gotten you to catch at least part of a clue.

[Stallion]

9. Yes if Parscale Had Been More Empathetic He Wouldn't be Locked out of Bedroom

[Marie Marie]

10. Don't you just love these people. Trump should have been more empathetic PERIOD!

Not because he would have "won in a landslide". "Biggest policy error of the campaign". That is the only way these scumbags look at everything. Trump should have done his f'in' job PERIOD. People have died because of Trump's laziness, incompetence and focus on the economy. Screw them all.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Is that Bozo back? Empathy from an angry sociopathic narcissist? Who would have believed him?

And also consider - if Trump had displayed empathy, 42% of his angry hordes would have dumped him and stayed home on election day. They are in it for the ANGER!

[brooklynite]

12. But his supporters want a MANLY man...

[Skittles]

13. surely he is aware Trump is INCAPABLE of empathy

Parscale is delusional

[patricia92243]

14. Bingo!

[thucythucy]

15. Well d'uh.

[MissMillie]

17. sure, empathy is nice, but...

COMPETENCY would have been even BETTER

He had to have known the economic damage Covid would have on the country.

[Yeehah]

18. Well, that and being a giant asshole in every way possible

I like to think Trump would have lost anyway.

[Paladin]

19. Thanks for that valuable insight, Brad. Now continue fucking yourself. (nt)

[area51]

20. Trump? Empathy?

[riversedge]

21. Most folks wanted concrete measures--and national leadership-not this state by state

hit or miss approach. They needed a stimulus --and needed it now. No. brad P. is wrong.

empathy from trump?? no. by the time of the election it was too late for that--even if trump had managed to pull it off (fake).

[JudyM]

22. Locking

Review by the forum hosts:
The opinion of a former campaign manager and an analysis of the impact of an issue on the campaign belongs in GD, since the SOP prohibits opinion and analysis, sabra. Thanks.