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Hillary Clinton Warns of MAGA ‘War on Empathy’ in Sweeping Essay: ‘Savagery Is a Feature, Not a Bug’
Mediaite via Yahoo ^ | 01/30/2026 | David Gilmour

Posted on 01/30/2026 2:05:30 PM PST by DFG

Hillary Clinton accused the MAGA movement of transforming “savagery” into a moral value, arguing in a sweeping new essay the idea that “compassion is weak and cruelty is strong” has become an “article of MAGA faith” – which she warned has become a “rallying cry” to Christian nationalism.

In a 6,000-word article published in The Atlantic on Friday, titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy”, Clinton framed recent federal actions in Minnesota as a turning point that exposes what she called a deeper ethical breakdown within President Donald Trump’s movement.

She opened by describing her reaction to video footage showing the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, comparing him to the biblical parable of the good Samaritan.

“Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves and help those in need,” she wrote. “Not in Donald Trump’s America.”

According to Clinton, such incidents reveal that fear has become the central objective of federal enforcement under the current administration, rather than public safety or justice, writing: “Trump and his allies believe that the more inhumane the treatment, the more likely it is to spread fear. That’s the goal of surging heavily armed federal forces into blue states such as Minnesota and Maine – street theater of the most dangerous kind.”

“The savagery is a feature, not a bug,” she later added of the MAGA movement.

In a central focus of the essay, moving beyond Minnesota, Clinton argued “the glorification of cruelty and rejection of compassion” she claims is evident in Trump’s policies appeals most to “a cadre of hard-right ‘Christian influencers’” that she argued are waging a “war on empathy.”

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Hillary is preaching about empathy.
1 posted on 01/30/2026 2:05:30 PM PST by DFG
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2 posted on 01/30/2026 2:10:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ( Klaatu barada nikto.)
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To: DFG

Christopher Stevens is unavailable for comment


3 posted on 01/30/2026 2:10:05 PM PST by Third Person
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So Clinton is focus testing a new Democrat media talking point


4 posted on 01/30/2026 2:10:18 PM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: DFG

The Big mouth Clintoon who escaped prison for over 70 years. She’s a POS crook.


5 posted on 01/30/2026 2:10:45 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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Is this THE Hillary Clinton talking about empathy? LOL!


6 posted on 01/30/2026 2:11:23 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So much hate. She doesn’t care about the illegals, she cares about the fraudulent democrat vote we are deporting.


7 posted on 01/30/2026 2:12:22 PM PST by Agatsu77
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This is what happens if you don’t lock people up.


8 posted on 01/30/2026 2:12:42 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I believe that every state is a Red state, if the elections are honest.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Barf alert.


9 posted on 01/30/2026 2:12:48 PM PST by Eli Kopter (Wherever you are, that is where you are supposed to be...)
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To: DFG; All

John Lott has shown the mistakes in arresting U.S. Citizens were three times the rate under the Obama administration than they have been under the Trump administration.

In other words, ICE is more than three times as careful during the Trump administration than they were under the Obama administration.

From the New York Post article:

“Let’s set the baseline: Between the president’s Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration and the end of November, Trump’s administration arrested an extraordinary total of 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000.

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The 170 ICE-detained US citizens cited in Stanage’s diatribe included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers, according to the left-leaning ProPublica — justifiable under any reading of the law.

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Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE.

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But just half of those people were held for more than a day; most were released in a few hours.

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Any error is serious, but 40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests.

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Compare that with the final two years of President Barack Obama’s administration.

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In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals.

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During those two years, ICE made a mere 239,645 arrests, meaning the 54 mistaken detentions alone produced an Obama error rate of 0.0225% —about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests.

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Overall, the error rate under Obama was 3.36 times higher than under Trump.”


10 posted on 01/30/2026 2:13:29 PM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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“compassion is weak and cruelty is strong”

This a perfect talking point for women and beta men voters.


11 posted on 01/30/2026 2:14:00 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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Says the woman who ripped off Haitians money.


12 posted on 01/30/2026 2:14:16 PM PST by Skywise
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4 star general in the communist revolution saying what needs to be heard by the communist street thugs.

She’s part of the revolution.

Nothing more needs to be said so much so much as it needs to be accepted.

There is a communist revolution happening in front of us all.


13 posted on 01/30/2026 2:16:00 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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You want savagery?

Hillary can deal out savagery...in spades.



14 posted on 01/30/2026 2:16:09 PM PST by Bratch
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From the the Queen of Arkanside.


15 posted on 01/30/2026 2:16:52 PM PST by Mlheureux
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She called me deplorable and a “bitter clinger” ... now, apparently, I’m savage.

Cool.


16 posted on 01/30/2026 2:17:18 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Didn’t she plan to force all medical students, regardless of religious conviction, to perform at least one abortion in order to get their MD?


17 posted on 01/30/2026 2:17:33 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DFG

Soft spines and weak bleeding hearts are not going to save our nation or our civilization


18 posted on 01/30/2026 2:17:42 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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I am rooting for her colostomy bag! (Sepsis)


19 posted on 01/30/2026 2:18:09 PM PST by CodeToad
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Says the reprobate who is about to be held in contempt of congress.


20 posted on 01/30/2026 2:18:59 PM PST by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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