This is something we need to talk about. Trump gets away with far too much by passing it off as something other than what it is—a joke or, as here, proof of how smart he is, how he says racist, misogynistic, or anti-democratic things to get at “the libs” as though they aren’t citizens whom he is supposed to work for, whom he took an oath to protect. Trump cancels his mistakes with the audacity of embracing them, and everyone plays along.