But there are plenty of things Trump has literally said that you don’t need to reach. He has literally said he wants to be a dictator. He has literally said he wants to use the military against US citizens…
His appeal to his followers is that he “says it like it is”. He wants you to believe he is being literal, so there is no reason to think those statements were hyperbolic. It would be pretty easy to attack his lack of internal consistency if he tried to claim that. Come to think of it, that probably should have been their line of attack the whole time.
But there are plenty of things Trump has literally said that you don’t need to reach. He has literally said he wants to be a dictator. He has literally said he wants to use the military against US citizens…
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His appeal to his followers is that he “says it like it is”. He wants you to believe he is being literal, so there is no reason to think those statements were hyperbolic. It would be pretty easy to attack his lack of internal consistency if he tried to claim that. Come to think of it, that probably should have been their line of attack the whole time.