Reminded powerfully of Sartre‘s famous quote on Nazis.
Facists will get away with whatever they can. When they discover they can, they were serious. When they discover they can’t, they were kidding for now and will try again later.
OK, well....He has also run on neo-Nazi issues, pursued NN policies, use NN language when addressing crowds and dignitaries both foreign and domestic, promoted NN memes/personalities, publically defended NN demonstrators, and been endorsed by NN leaders and orgs. So.