[DrewsDad]

By embracing and enlarging the lie, Trump gives his most ardent fans no escape. They must either fall in line with yet another comfortable story about how their leader is both supremely right and a victim of deceit or open themselves up to the possibility that this one instance of deception and boorishness isn’t unique but utterly representative, which it is.

[JediJones]

Brilliant piece! Really eye-opening comparison to the tactics of Trump and the mafia, totalitarians, etc.