I don’t think I ever claimed “We should pay attention to Adams because he uses the same kind of lies Trump does, thus illustrating what Trump does.”
LawrenceC said it much better then me. Trump-style “master persuasion” is not the same as “model rationalist disagreement”. Unless perhaps that is exactly the point you were trying to make, in which case it would help to make it explicit.
I don’t think I ever claimed “We should pay attention to Adams because he uses the same kind of lies Trump does, thus illustrating what Trump does.”
LawrenceC said it much better then me. Trump-style “master persuasion” is not the same as “model rationalist disagreement”. Unless perhaps that is exactly the point you were trying to make, in which case it would help to make it explicit.