He displayed the difference between “playing the part” and serving “in the part”, knowing it wasn’t a game

That's why he was an evil son of a bitch. I believed him when he hired Tom Homan to torture asylum seekers and I also believed him when he awarded his Nazi ass for excellent work.

It's a game, and we are losing.

In that context, everything done and undone is a game, since every action is an interpretation shaded by the ability to deal with reality - Insisting on dealing with lurid fantasies to the exclusion of the reality others see is where we get led over the edge