In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Mike Gerson, a former advisor to President George W. Bush, said that "Trump's most consequential deficit may lie in is emotional intelligence," noting that "his incapacity for empathy results in cruelty that strikes at the moral core of American greatness."
"Trump is unable to find any value in the views of a political opponent, which puts both national healing and useful compromise beyond his abilities," he continued. "He is only capable of governing on behalf of those who support him, making him vulnerable to manipulation through flattery."