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None of this is for the sake of actual progressives/leftists/dems.
He's saying this rhetoric for his base, his supporters are his only political capital and it's a strong one. He is preserving the narrative.
The people who hang on his every word like it's WWE theater with villains and bad guys ONLY understand this story in terms of good guys and bad guys, they cannot conceive of the "other side" not seeing it the same way, they get angry at the notion that there are people who aren't locked into the personality narratives, it's not a matter of consistency or hypocrisy to them, they don't give a shit about that because... again... it's a narrative, a story. Stories have good guys and bad guys and plot twists, and if you say you don't care, you're just saying you're not involved in the story so why are you even talking about it?
Trying to explain this to them from the outside, from a "meta" perspective is like trying to convince your 17-year-old cousin Kyle that WWE isn't real. He will look at you blank and get mad and punch a hole in the wall because you're trying to make him feel bad, not that you're revealing anything about the show. He doesn't CARE about if the show is real or not. Cognitive dissonance is hardwired into much of our population's brains, Trump's crew just found a way to connect it to politics in a cheap, easy-to-digest format, just like he learned while working with WWE and reality TV.
The more we say "I don't care, expose them too" it only makes maga chuds tune out and ignore you. You're just saying to them that you're not involved and don't care about the story.
This is really hard for a lot of people with more than a few hundred brain cells to comprehend but if we accepted sooner that this is how people engage in politics in this country we probably could have written better stories ourselves a lot sooner and engaged at least a portion of these mindless guthogs away from Trump and AT LEAST got them to not vote.