Trump Has Not Been Held Accountable for What He Says
There is a technique in rhetoric that allows a person to make the most dangerous, most inflammatory, most destructive statement possible and never have to defend a single word of it.
The technique is simple. Say the outrageous thing. Wait for the reaction. When challenged, retreat to a safer version of the claim. When the scrutiny dies down, walk back out and say the outrageous thing again.
The audience hears the outrageous thing. The media covers the retreat. The outrageous thing stays planted in millions of brains. And the speaker walks away clean every single time.
This is not a failure of…
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