Callousness, it seems, is the political order of the day.

On Monday, New York magazine columnist Frank Rich published a piece entitled “No Sympathy for the Hillbilly.” Rich’s argument against pandering to “hillbillies” — the most vilified, if not actually archetypal, Trump voters — is that they made a choice and have to deal with the disastrous results:

Liberals looking for a way to empathize with conservatives should endorse the core conservative belief in the importance of personal responsibility. Let Trump’s white working-class base take responsibility for its own votes — or in some cases failure to vote — and live with the election’s consequences.