The right says “suicidal empathy” is destroying the West. Here’s the truth.

Elon Musk looks on during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025. | Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images America’s right-wing elites have a theatrical new indictment of liberals that they warn will lead to catastrophe: They care too much.  “Suicidal empathy,” the phrase coined by Canadian marketing professor and conservative influencer Gad Saad, is suddenly on the lips of everyone right-of-center — including…