Trump doesn't speak in full, coherent sentences, because he's speaking a different language, one his followers understand but we don't.
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Sweden didn't take in large numbers of anything the night before, nor did they have problems taking in large numbers. No, this is innuendo.
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And none of us know what it's supposed to mean because we're trying to reconstruct logical sentences, and not filling in with our biases.
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The sentence makes perfect sense to his followers. A large number of muslim refugees caused problems that the lying media isn't reporting.
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This style of speaking reinforces the biases of the listener, that's why it's so dangerous. We can't treat it as if Obama is speaking ConLaw
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Trump "says it like it is" by saying the first part of a thought and letting the listener fill in the rest. Exactly as it is in their mind.
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this seems very relevant to your pointhttps://twitter.com/AndrewBeatty/status/833293677107740672 …
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While I agree with you, parataxis is a valid way to structure texts, especially (meant to look like) spontaneous…
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Btw, we do similar stuff with new compound nouns all the time. Anyway, he didn't invent the style – okay, that’s trivial.
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Sure, nothing new about it except his almost exclusive use of it in the presidency
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Yep. As a certain style, it'd be okay—but he seems to be unable to switch according to context/topic/audience. Dangerous.
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I understand your sentiment, but I'm a little confused because those are three independent clauses that can all stand alone.
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I think the first one is supposed to be an adverbial clause ("when" or "if" you look at Sweden), but yeah.
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Like, its more a problem of LOGIC than grammar per se. Trump alludes to ideas but doesn't state or support 'em
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I get your point, but those aren't fragments.
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