General Discussion

It simply has to be strategy. Otherwise, the world is too random and everything is awry. Like, what authorizes the capitalization of "Reciprocal" in that letter? One can argue that some of the other bad capitalizations could be mistaken for proper nouns, I suppose, but not that one. Is this a gaslighting strategy? Are we supposed to read these, see them as obviously incorrect, but then when no media or government spokespeople say anything about the bonkers grammar and punctuation, we begin to doubt our own education and sense of linguistic competence? Are we supposed to feel crazy when the whole of the press corps isn't on the press secretary 99% of the time asking why the letters from the White House sound like they were written by a slightly slow nine-year old?

It's amazing that Republicans, who have long fancied themselves prescriptivist grammarians against the barbarians at the gates of local dialects and home languages, are not embarrassed by this absolute nonsense.