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    2 months ago

    @eddeeMN that a person is a liar is no justification for setting up a straw man argument.

    Still, the fact that key campaigns against this proposal, and that his voters reject the proposal, comes together to say that he would lose support and lose votes should he actually try to implement the thing that he says he doesn’t want to implement and that his people don’t want him to implement.

    It gets into this really nutty conspiracy theory. Yeah, Trump’s a liar, but that doesn’t give much license to ignore everything else happening in his entire orbit to put words in his mouth and criticize him for the thing that he explicitly rejects.

    Just because he’s a liar doesn’t mean you can ignore everything and make up an alternative story and run with it.

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