My study is this forum and others like it, as well as the experience of life.
Did wingnuts not ridicule Obama's community service?
Have you met very many people who did Peace Corps who are Trump supporters? I haven't.
How about the people who serve in Doctors without Borders, Special Olympics, or teach in inner city schools? Many Trump supporters among them? I think not.
The evidence stares you every day in the face, on this forum and elsewhere. Wingnuts are not noted for empathy and mercy. How many wingnuts where cheering for the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Do those type of people strike you as persons with civic values, humanity, and empathy?
No?
I thought not.
While I cannot say lack of empathy is universally true for wingnuts, all you have to do is read this board to see which side of the political spectrum more often provides safe harbor for racism, materialism, lack of empathy, and lack of mercy - all masquerading under the phony slogan: "rugged individualism"