By allowing yourselves to be led around by every Trump tweet like children, you're fulfilling his goal. Did you stop to think why Trump posted that flag burning tweet? Like, what prompted it? It seemingly came out of nowhere, didn't it? Perhaps he wants you to be outraged by the flag burning tweet, just like he wanted you to be outraged by that 2nd amendment comment and all the other wild shyt he said during the election, just like he wants you to think he's going to set up FEMA camps. Remember, it was Steve Bannon who wanted to "let Trump be Trump".
The cumulative effect of you thinking (and tweeting/posting/saying) that these Trump utterances should be construed in a literal, realistic sense is the demolition of the shared "reality" we believe ourselves to be living in. The gap between the "reality" you offer ("Trump is being serious and we're about to enter the 4th Reich") and the "reality" most people outside the bubble inhabit is widened by your outrage, which creates an environment of chaos and confusion. Who is credible now? Are you and the MSM telling us to be outraged credible? Y'all spent the past year smugly laughing and saying Trump could never be elected, and now we're supposed to believe you when you tell us to be afraid of Trump, or that his tweets constitute a credible threat? Not only is any message coming from your side poisoned, it is poisoned because it is coming from your side. People think the "fake news" phenomenon is limited to far-right wing conspiracy sites, but all news is fake news now.
Quotes like this: are exactly what Trump's media strategy relies on.