@theguardian_us_opinion this article is written by a person who doesn't know enough about the US conservative world to have the context in which to interpret Trump's statements as his supporters do.

He more or less speaks a different language, he uses references that his supporters are extremely familiar with, but this reporter isn't aware of, so the article is really out of its depth.

In the end it really says more about the reporter than about Trump, says more about the state of #journalism today than about #USPolitics.

The comments about eating pets, for example, referenced a trope that is well known in the conservative media world. But this reporter doesn't seem aware of that, and so thinks it's something Trump came up with.