End of Empathy
End of Empathy When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were…
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End of Empathy
When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast. How, after all, could an amoral, twice-divorced businessman from New York garner such devoted admiration from the most vociferous of "values voters?" That this same group had, not a century earlier, rallied national support for such progressive causes as a federal minimum wage, child labor laws, and civil rights made the Trump shift even harder to square.In The End of Empathy, John W. Even for a community that had been tracking further and further right for decades, this support seemed decidedly out of step.
To explain the rise of white Protestant social concern in Compton presents a nuanced portrait of the changing values of evangelical voters over the course of the last century.