Oh, I have no doubt they will twist themselves into a Gordian knot trying to disingenuously do just that, Mr. Lewis. Libtards and their hacks in the FAKE NEWS media use lies to support subsequent lies, to support more subsequent lies, and so on.
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." ~ Saul Alinsky
"A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth. If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." ~ Joseph Goebbels
"The tenth rule of the ethics of rules and means is that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral arguments. ... the essence of Lenin's speeches during this period was 'They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.' And it was ..." ~ Saul Alinsky

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence