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Does he recommend lying so much? I'm not sure how to categorize Trump's lying. He just says whatever he wants, completely made up.

• nordsieck 7y ago
  > I'm not sure how to categorize Trump's lying. He just says whatever he wants, completely made up. My charitable view of Trump's lying is this: He is one of the first high level public officials to take Scalia's opinion in Republican Party of Minnesota v White seriously > Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment. His speech is in essence poetry rather than prose; he focuses almost exclusively on evocative imagery and emotional impact and disregards facts as largely irrelevant to his audience. To my dismay, this is much more effective than I would like it to be.