re: #623 Kragar

Another point about this concept of allegiance: it means that no matter who is nominally addressed, the statement is actually addressed to those on-side.

If Trump really continues the trend of accusing this behavior on liberals, it will not be because he cares about the safety of Jews, or even wants to address them to appease or dupe them. The real message is to reassure his followers that they can’t be the people in the wrong.

And if someone is found that isn’t a liberal…they’ll make him a liberal. They already do this all the time, with scant evident and the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Except now this pattern is being used by the people with real power.