I hope this (an expression from my wife) doesn't go in your ears wrong. Politicians and political pundits are all about hyperbole and bs when it suits them. Just my opinion/observation but what people most dislike about the ones on "the other side" is not the lies they tell, but the truths because the truth often hurts. Sometimes they are telling truths or giving perspective we don't like. It's ready to call out the bs. The uncomfortable truths, not so much.