You don’t want to create a martyr. (not you, don-o)
And the difference between now and that theoretical is what?
His every word is defended, every action idolized and worshiped by masses of educated and uneducated ignoramuses.
When the mouthpiece media is writing his "legacy" when he is out of office in three years (crap, three more years?) he will have "governed" as an utter deity walking the earth.
I simply do not see any measure of the idolatry which can be increased.
In the eyes of the neo-communist "progressive liberals" he is being "martyred" by any critique no matter how slight and he himself is a true believer... of himself .
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