That makes the assumption that all people can be restored. That’s simply not true.

A psychopathic serial killer cannot be redeemed. They will always kill again. You have to lock them up forever or put them down like any other rabid animal.

At some point, you have to choose to protect yourself and your community or be destroyed. It’s here that your compassion can and will be weaponized against you. It can and does have limits. It should.

In Trump’s case, my compassion ends at the conditions that created him. He had no choice in that and has clearly suffered damage because of it. But he’s an adult now. He has been for a very long time. He could have chosen to get help. He could have chosen to work on what drives these impulses to harm others. He didn’t. He won’t. He thinks he’s smarter than anyone else. He is belligerent, entitled, and absolutely full of himself. He enjoys the wreckage he causes. He gets off on it. Don’t fool yourself otherwise.

Recognizing that fact is not a moral failing on your part.

200K+ have lost a loved one. Millions have lost their jobs. His asinine trade war has devastated farmers. People are suffering from the effects of climate change and he’s denied or withheld assistance. He’s stolen and defrauded an untold number of people. Where is your compassion for them?

Are they just too numerous to grasp mentally? I don’t know but before people start with the moral equivalency and shaming … they should ask themselves “Where is my compassion for them?”