There is a growing anger evident on my TV this morning.

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57. Most human beings are decent and can manage sympathy, even for fools. Trump is different.

There were folks proposing that there would be an outpouring of sympathy and it might benefit Trump. The reality is that while most of us have been taught not to wish ill on people or to celebrate misfortune, there is a difference and there are conditions under which sympathy is the emotional state evoked. Even tragic heroes, people who are not that sympathetic, but who were trying to better themselves and their situation will elicit sympathy. For instance, Eric Garner had a criminal record. He was selling cigarettes which he knew was illegal, etc...etc... BUT, He did not have to die! especially in such a horrible and needless manner. We could look past Mr. Garner's various troubles and see the humanity that was snuffed out. Not so much with Trump.

People like Trump and his family, who have a pattern of using others, of deceit, of malfeasance and maleficence, who have particularly, on this issue, had a major hand in the death of 210,000 of our fellow Americans; wouldn't garner support except from those who align themselves with his way of thinking and doing. As I said yesterday, Democratic leaders have expressed well wishes, because they are decent people. However, Trump is not a sympathetic figure in any possible way. I think that they had no choice but to reveal the status, but they probably thought they could spin it and elicit some kind of support. The thing is, you have to have a shred of humanity in order to elicit sympathy.