Obama will try to straddle the two camps — he seems to sympathize with both sides — but the liberals will win.
He seems to sympathize with anti-establishment outsiders, whether they are Occupy Wall Street organizers, the writer Raymond Carver or even the libertarian renegade Peter Thiel.
Dee seems to sympathize with his characters, but at every moment is subtly undermining them, a shifty kind of writing familiar to anyone who has read Thackeray's "Vanity Fair".
Grass seems to sympathize with his characters' belief that unification was an Anschluss, comparable to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, and that the Treuhand resembled the Nazis' exploitation of conquered territories.
1--Peele seems to sympathize with the plight of the "mildly intoxicated driver" and to feel that "many Americans will perceive (his treatment by the law) as unjust". It isn't the "mildly intoxicated driver" who is prosecuted.
Pushing this idea further, two new books, "Galileo's Mistake," by Wade Rowland (Arcade Publishing), and "Galileo in Rome" by William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas (Oxford University Press), almost seem to sympathize with the inquisitors, making Galileo look like the dogmatist.
Yet he doesn't seem to sympathize.
The locals in Taliqan seemed to sympathize.
Sometimes, the French even seem to sympathize with the burden of dual nationality.
Asked about the robocall, Mr. Trump seemed to sympathize with its message while affecting a vague half-distance.
