It matters for the solid reasons you state that we can't be distracted by the content of his lies. However, it
is a very important thing that Trump and his administration will stand there and simply say
2 + 2 = 5.
All politicians have stretched the truth, chosen different angles to view facts from, been disingenuously selective in which facts they cite and which they ignore. But very few, and those never at this high a level, have just told bald faced lies and then gone nuclear on anyone fact-checking them. Even Fox and Hate Radio have only done this by implication, tweaking their coverage to insinuate falsehoods but rarely uttering demonstrably, obviously false statements. They probably wanted to, but they couldn't effectively because their lie would be exposed and undercut what they were trying to achieve with it. It was self-destructive to baldly lie.
Trump is completely different.
The President of the United States is an actual, clinical pathological liar. And our politics is now so broken that the vast majority of people who voted for him either don't think it matters or deliberately ignore it, simply
because they voted for him.
That has never happened before so overtly and totally. The only place it has been visible before is the conspiracy media. It's not that they try to hide or divert attention from the truth. It's that they simply define truth as whatever is needed in that particular instant for their advantage.
This is new. One political party has stopped acknowledging empirical reality. And the voters rewarded them for it. By the correspondence theory of truth, about 30% of our fellow citizens are either
irrational or no longer acknowledge that anything is objectively true of false.
Good God: the Post-Structuralists won. This is what I always warned Dr. Mrs. would come of Derrida.
