We already knew Trump was a liar, a racist, an anti-science moron. What this moment revealed is that he lacks any empathy.

Hate to tell it to you, but this is old stuff.

Think of the families sitting around the kitchen table when daddy came home to tell them that Trumps deliberate bankruptcies had just destroyed their small business.

Well yeah. Personally I already knew that.

It was still jolting to hear Trump express this degree of cynicism toward Biden’s time-honored empathetic trope in front of a national audience.

“You sound like a politician!” Yeah. Because pretty much every president we’ve had at least tries to care, or cares about being perceived to care.

From George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” (hollow though it was, he at least genuflected to compassion), to Trump’s total self-idolatry and abandonment of any responsibility or accountability whatsoever is still a significant debasement.

As if Trump had differed from almost every other politician ever - the only new thing he added was the fact that he was a criminal before he entered politics...