My take on this, is that the implication is that politicians don’t feel free to speak their minds, don’t feel free to share views and what they believe with the voters who give them their jobs in the first place.
It sounds funny for someone to explicitly say this.
Right! He is essentially telling the world he has been a duplicitous ass his entire time as a politician (like we didn’t already know that). I guess that’s something to say in his favor even if it is a backhanded compliment.
Snap!